Álvaro let out one of his little laughs, looking at me for less than a second over his black, furry shoulder. Even though it was a very brief instant, the look that beast gave me said without words that what he had in mind was not exactly forcing me to have his babies. For what it was going to be useful for, just in case.
I still kept a secret that they didn’t know.
Something that almost no one knew, because it horrified me to admit it. I didn’t know it for sure, but saying it out loud was, for me, a way of giving solidity to the idea, of making it definitive. I shut my eyes tightly, clinging to a small, foolish hope, and I said:
“…you’re wasting your time,” it came out of my mouth almost in a low murmur. “I don’t know if I can get pregnant again. I had a car accident a few years ago, a
