We were in the hospital, and I held onto Jacques, while watching Sherry holding her baby and talking to him.

Though I didn’t say it out loud, her son resembled her, but also had inherited part of Anderson’s features. It made me think of how I wished I could give Syl a family of his own. And now, I wanted to give Jacques a family.

I didn’t want to tell him that right now, but I was eager to get to a gynaecologist to determine whether I could ever have a baby.

Jacques, however, wasn’t keen on sending me to the gynaecologist, as if he was afraid the outcome of...