“There,” Arthur echoed softly into the phone.

“She had a hysterectomy,” I said, trying to make the impossible words fit together in my mind.

“Before Lily was born.”

“Born,” Arthur confirmed.

He let out a long, slow breath that crackled against the microphone.

“Rebecca was never pregnant eleven years ago.

It’s physically impossible.”

I asked him if the investigator was absolutely sure about the medical records.