MIKA
My pulse races in my ears as I watch Channing, hoping for a reaction as he sits rigidly. His lips moved slightly, but no words emerge at first. Then, finally, he blinks. "I don't understand," he says, but his voice is distant, as if he is trying to piece everything together. “I thought you couldn’t have kids.”
My throat tightens and my eyes sting as I feel the familiar fear and anxiety rising deep inside my chest. "I couldn't, as far as I was aware." My voice barely rises above a whisper. “I was diagnosed with a condition that made it impossible.”
I swallow hard, my hands fidgeting in my lap as I explain my situation to him. "The doctors have no idea how it happened. They can’t explain it.”
Channing runs his hand over his face and exhales sharply before pushing himself up from t
