I Secretly Boarded My Flight Attendant Wife’s Final Flight for Our Anniversary—Then the Captain Announced She Was Pregnant, and an Old Medical Result Made Me Believe the Worst

The physician who reviewed it with me used the word:

“azoospermia.”

He also told me one test was not enough to establish a permanent diagnosis.

I was supposed to repeat it.

I never did.

Penelope was already blaming her body for every failed cycle.

I looked at that report and made the decision I would later regret almost as much as anything that followed.

I hid it.