Chapter Three
STERLING
I check the date on the page in Des’ booklet that the doctor is writing things down on.
It’s the second of March. It’s Logan’s birthday next week and just that realisation takes my breath away for a moment, my heart sinking and a bad feeling coming over me.
“Are you okay?” The doctor looks up and at me.
I nod, but then shake my head. A nurse is holding Des, about to weigh him, and I hold my hand up. “Give me a moment.” I flee the examination room and rush to the nearest toilets. There, I lock myself inside.
Fuck. f**k, f**k, f**k.
That was so not the plan.
But it totally overtook me how close it was. We had Wilder’s birthday two weeks ago, and I know how close together their birthdays are. But just seeing it…
Last year I would have… I would have been in the
