I swallowed the scream.
I turned it into patience, and patience into evidence, because evidence was the only weapon that would actually protect my child, and my child was the only thing that mattered now.
Chapter 7 — The Labs
Her name is Zora, and she is a senior research chemist at the hospital, and she has been my closest friend since we were nineteen.
She heard about thirty seconds of what I was saying before she told me to come in that instant.
She pulled me into a private room and drew blood and ran panels herself, and an hour later she sat down across from me with her face gone gray.