When Dorothy walked out of the ultrasound room, there was a look of defeat on her face.

The doctor's words echoed in her mind over and over again, lingering in her ear and not going away.

She had not gotten pregnant. She had no child in her belly. The reason her period had not arrived was that since she had been mentally telling herself she was pregnant, her body had shown false signs of pregnancy.

She looked at Germaine's hopeful eyes and felt an amount of sorrow stuck in her throat, making her want to cry out loud.

She had worked so hard that night, so why had she still...