Reunions and Revelations

Marcella

I waited in the doctors' clinic, feeling my anxiety grow. The doctor who had been with me through my pregnancy with Blaise was not available; he was out of station said the nurse politely. Instead, I was directed to a woman who looked at me over the top of her spectacles severely. She had white hair in a short, neat style and thin, unsmiling lips.

When she began to examine me and asked me