Whatever Simone had done, however terrible it might be, the child had not done it.
That became the principle I refused to abandon.
Adults would face consequences.
Children would not.
The next shock came two days later.
Rachel entered my kitchen carrying a thick folder.
Her expression frightened me.
“What?”
“Remember Leonard Chase?”
“The Greenhaven attorney.”
“He finally produced documents.”
I sat.
Rachel placed a photocopy in front of me.
It was an internal memorandum.
Dated seven years earlier.
Three days after our embryo transfer.
SUBJECT: LABELING IRREGULARITY — TRANSFER ROOM B.
My hands went cold.
The memo documented discrepancies involving two patient identification numbers.
Mine.
Simone’s.
It also listed the employee whose electronic credentials had accessed the record.
Simone Harper.
But there was no definitive conclusion.
The clinic had buried the incident after both patients became pregnant.
No one informed us.
No one informed Jonathan.
Greenhaven quietly terminated Simone for “procedural violations.”
