Then again.
The rain tapped steadily against the glass behind us.
Set B.
My voice barely rose above a whisper.
“Kenneth… how many embryos were there?”
He did not answer immediately.
And in that silence, I understood something worse than betrayal had been waiting beneath the first secret.
There had been more than one missing future.
PART 3
For a long moment, the rain was the only sound in my office.
It tapped against the window in thin, silver lines, steady and patient, while the message on my phone seemed to burn through the screen.
Ask Connor what happened to Set A.
Kenneth did not reach for the phone right away. He simply stood there, reading the words as if the space between them mattered as much as the message itself.
I could hear the hospital around us. A cart rolling somewhere down the corridor. A soft page over the speaker system. A child laughing in the distance, high and bright, unaware that the world could split open inside one small office.
