I Became a Surrogate for My Brother — But When He Saw His Newborn Baby, He Rejected Her, and the Reason Made Me Go Pale.
He accepted the logic faster than the courts.
Children often do.
The first night at home I walked the hall between Leo’s door and the office-that-was-now-a-crib and felt like a person learning a house she already owned.
Every creak had a new meaning.
David slept in a chair because the bed felt too far.
In the morning Leo made toast and offered Maya a corner of it.