“I don’t see any abnormalities in the second twin. You can rest assured—the girl is also completely healthy,” the ultrasound doctor said with a smile.
But I froze.
“In what sense… the girl?” I asked, lifting myself up on the couch. “I have two sons…”
The doctor frowned and shocked me:
“No, Yesenia. You are carrying heterozygous twins—definitely.”
He paused a moment and added:
“A boy and a girl.”
I’d been observed at my friends’ clinic, but the last visit to the doctor unsettled me. I decided, in secret from my husband, to go for an ultrasound to make sure the children were all right. And in the end, I learned a terrible secret.
One of the embryos they implanted during IVF belonged to my husband and…
his ex…