Did not ask Elisa.

His life stopped being something I needed to understand.

That was one of the final stages of leaving.

PART 32 — MOTHERHOOD

Three years after the divorce, I made a decision.

Not because I was trying to prove anything.

Not because Lukas’s family once believed they could use a baby to trap me.

Because after therapy, medical advice, and a long period of thinking, I knew I still wanted to become a mother.

I chose donor conception.