Ofelia’s POVI attended my first scan alone.The decision had seemed sensible when I made the appointment. Bringing someone would create questions, and I was not ready for questions. Not from Victoria, not from Adrian, and especially not from Damien.Still, when I entered the clinic and saw couples sitting together in the waiting room, the loneliness became harder to ignore.A man across from me held his wife’s hand while she rested her head against his shoulder. Another couple whispered over a baby-name application on a phone. Near the window, a woman laughed quietly while the man beside her touched her stomach as though he already knew the child inside.I looked down at my own hands.They were clasped tightly over my handbag.The appointment card inside carried the false name Olivia Brown, but the receptionist recognized me from the previous visit and quietly called me Ofelia when no one else was close enough to hear.“Dr. Harris will see you soon.”“Thank you.”I chose the chair fa
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