It's you or nothing

"CHARLIE'S right…" Gideon muttered after we left the hospital. "I'm… infertile."

The day after Charlie talked to us, Gideon and I decided to visit a urologist. And there, we confirmed that Charlie was telling the truth. Gideon had an infertility problem.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Henry," the doctor said when he handed us the result of Gideon's lab tests. "The result of your laboratory told us you have a condition called oligospermia. It is a condition where your testicles don't produce enough sperm cells. A normal sperm count ranges from fifteen million sperm per milliliter of semen. In your case, Mr. Henry, your testicles can only produce five to eight million sperm."

Gideon turned to me. "I couldn't give you a child, Bianca." There was a bitter smile on his face. "I couldn't give you a family. I promised your child, I'll give her a sister, right? Turns out I wouldn't be able to do it."

I cupped his face. "You heard the doctor, Gideon. It's curable. You can get treatment for that. You can