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.”

tug out my hair tie and twist

his lip.

If I can carry the baby to five or six months, the child could survive then, right?”

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, it’d be too late.”

to pu ke

papers. I’ve clearly unnerved him. “I’ll confer with

both knew this was a longshot. Can we transfer the embryo?

that I’m going to di e, but I can’t

pregnancy transfers of a fetus or embryo are

pregnancy. Attempting a uterine procedure can complicate or terminate that. There isn’t enough science. Even at four or five months, we can do more with a premature delivery. The first trimester is a time when most pregnancies either take

risk to

enough time?” I

baby. But if you delay your treatments

be any

aggressive chemo and radiation immediately. And that was before the transfer of my father’s powers that have also boosted the aggressiveness

We can start treatments. There is still

“No,” I whisper.

“Please.”

looks positively frazzled, and I’m not even sure what to ask.

can we keep this

life would be like if I’d grown up here. Would Adam be the father

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