The reproductive-law attorney and hospital social worker coordinated Oliver’s care under the parentage order already in place.

I stared at Julian.

“So Oliver was alive somewhere else while you were losing Lily and Leo.”

“Yes.”

I could not imagine it.

Joy and devastation refusing to wait their turn.

PART 10 — LEO

Lily was gone quickly.

Leo lived long enough for hope to become dangerous.

“He was tiny.”