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.”

tug out my hair tie and twist

bites his lip.

off treatments. If I can carry the baby to five or six

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,

feel like I’m going to pu ke again. “So

rifling through a stack of papers. I’ve clearly unnerved him. “I’ll confer with Dr. Henley. We can run more

and still his hand. “Hey. We both knew this was a longshot. Can we transfer

can accept that I’m going to di e, but I can’t bury the compulsion

a fetus or embryo

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

high risk to the nth

enough time?” I ask

baby. But if you delay your treatments that long, your chances for survival…”

won’t be

was before the transfer of my father’s

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

“No,” I whisper.

“Please.”

ask more questions, but Adam looks positively frazzled, and I’m not even sure what to ask.

we keep this information between ourselves

for the first time, I wonder what my life would be like if I’d grown up here. Would Adam