“We honestly thought when Jessica was pregnant the first time, it was a miracle. She was always drawing him away, and we all knew they were doing it like rabbits. When she became pregnant the second time, I thought those doctors had been wrong. All wrong—and thanked Heaven for it. But the truth of it is, Ashley would have never known, because we made a pact to never tell him until it was necessary.”
Granny’s words had circled through my head the rest of that evening into the next morning. When Ashley had said those things in Nashville…my hand rested on my stomach. He wanted to have a family with me, but there was no way that he could have. It was a terrible thought, that he could have never fathered a child of his own. So, in many ways, we were fortunate that he loved his sons as he did
