Bad Love An Alpha’s Regret

Chapter 85

“No. That’s not possible.”

He quirks his head. “Stop me if I’m wrong, but I’m pretty sure your former husband would have s*x with you.”

Yes. All the time.

Sometimes multiple times. Daily.

I gulp.

My hands instinctively go to my stomach.

Adam’s gaze goes to the cooler across the room where he’s storing my chemotherapy then back to me.

“I, uh, can’t take the drugs to ki ll the ca ncer without k illing my baby.”

He frowns. His eyes are so kind. But the pity I see there… it ki lls

“This particular ca ncer…no.”

out my hair tie

his lip.

carry the baby to five or six months,

to keep the baby in NICU. But the statistics for premature births are quite good.” Adam frowns. “But if you forego treatments that long… the ca ncer will have spread completely. You’d be down to days left on your life, and even if we started chemo,

pu ke again. “So it’s me or my baby.”

I’ve clearly unnerved him. “I’ll confer with Dr. Henley. We can run

this was a longshot.

I’m going to di e, but I can’t bury the compulsion to try and save my

transfers of a fetus or embryo are very rare

once the embryo is implanted, it either takes or it doesn’t. You already have a successful pregnancy. Attempting a uterine procedure can complicate or terminate that. There isn’t enough science. Even

I’m high risk to the nth degree.

have enough time?”

delay your treatments that long,

There won’t be any

hospital oncologist topped me out at 5% if I started aggressive chemo and radiation immediately. And that was before the

you need to abort. We can start treatments. There is still a chance that we can

“No,” I whisper.

“Please.”

questions, but Adam looks positively frazzled, and I’m not even sure

“Hey, Adam, can we keep this information between ourselves

draw together. Not for the first time, I wonder what my life would be like if I’d grown up here. Would Adam be the father of this child?