“I’m surprised you’re here alone. Where is your boyfriend?” Doctor Parker asked just as she finished putting the cold gel on her lower abdomen. She wasn’t supposed to be here so Marc didn’t know. He thought she was seeing a customer from the cafe. The boys did too.
“Oh um… I didn’t tell him. And I hope you’d keep this from him too... again,” she bites her lips when the middle-aged doctor gave her look. “I’ve hidden too much from your boyfriend. Tell me, it was his kid too back then. Wasn’t it?’
Amaya didn’t say anything as her eyes glued to the screen. Somehow the doctor didn’t mind her quietness as she continued her check-up. The older female was probably used to it by now. Yet the disapproving looks she gave never died down.
She cried when the beating heart of her baby echoes througho
