Caleb sat curled against me.
Leah stayed beside Simone.
Darius paced.
At some point, someone brought water.
Nobody drank it.
Simone spoke first.
Her husband, Jonathan Ellis, had died two years earlier from pancreatic cancer.
A year after his death, Leah developed unexplained anemia.
Nothing immediately dangerous, but persistent enough that doctors ordered extensive testing.
During that process, something strange appeared.
Leah’s blood type and genetic markers did not make sense with Jonathan’s medical records.
Simone assumed there was an error.
Then she took a private DNA test.
The results showed that Leah was not biologically related to Jonathan.
That alone could have been explained.
Except she wasn’t biologically related to Simone either.
My skin crawled.
Simone had also used Greenhaven Reproductive Medicine.
Same year.
Same month.
Same week.
Then she checked old paperwork.
Her embryo transfer had occurred
on the exact same morning as mine.
The clinic initially denied that any mix-up was possible.
