The report did not declare him incapable of fathering a child.

It recommended further evaluation after results outside the expected reference range.

What stunned me was the date: he had been tested while telling me he couldn’t arrange an appointment.

That evening he found me standing in the hallway with the envelope in my hand.

“Where did you get that?” he asked.

“It was in the filing cabinet.

Why didn’t you tell me you had been tested?”

His gaze darted toward his mother’s bedroom.