Feedback: hquilley[at]gmail[dot]com
A Decision
Already Made
by Helen Quilley
The news
knocked her back in her chair -- the doctor thought the eggs were viable.
Feelings of relief and hope invaded her instantly - could this be true!?
Vaguely aware, she heard the doctor explain that she'd need to find a
donor and the enormity of a decision she'd already made began to weigh
on her. She'd tried to imagine anyone else as the father of her
baby, and failed with misery.
He had qualities she'd long admired, loyalty, determination, strength
and so many others. Swatting away the thought that he was very much
like her father and all the other important men in her life, she worried
that her asking would reveal to him what she was afraid to reveal even
to herself. But her fear would not be enough to dissuade her. As
if possessing the psychic ability she's so often questioned, she knew
without question that it would be him.