He looked at me for a long moment.
“I know.”
“And we’ll figure it out together.”
“Yeah,” he finally said. “We’ll figure it out.”
At the time, I believed him.
Back in the hospital, I looked at Susan.
“He was scared,” I whispered.
“Very.”
“But he never mentioned adoption. Not once. After the delivery, I woke up, and he told me one of our babies had died.”