Chapter 35As soon as we got back from Key West, Wills and his cousin met with the genetic counselor, had blood drawn, and then we settled in to wait.
When Cathy and Lexi got those positions with the Ambassador, Cathy made sure she left behind a supply of viable ova. Lexi left us the contact information for a surrogate who would carry the baby.
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It had been a stressful autumn; not only was Wills in and out of DC on the job, but each month that went by with no pregnancy made us feel the pressure more and more. With Cathy out of the country, the ova she’d left us were running low.
“Don’t worry about it, babe,” Wills said. “We’ll just have your baby first.”
But he’d wanted that baby so badly, as a reminder of his mother both for himself and his father, and I couldn’t blame him. Jac
