Elena gave a hollow laugh. “So it was just easier to let everyone blame me.”
The doctor could not deny it.
Then he disclosed something even more disturbing. Not long after the divorce, Beatrice had returned to his office and asked whether a sudden pregnancy from Elena was medically possible. Dr. Vance had told her that it absolutely was. Beatrice then asked whether there was any possibility Alex wasn’t the biological father.
That night, Alex confronted his mother one final time.
Beatrice attempted to defend herself with a story she had repeated for six years. She claimed she had seen Elena entering an apartment building in Cambridge several times with an unfamiliar man and assumed Elena was having an affair.
Alex demanded a name.
Beatrice had none.
Elena did.
It was Sergio, her older brother, who had flown in from Chicago to stay with her and support her through her high-risk quadruplet pregnancy.
