99 Days With You by Catherine Miller

Author:Catherine Miller
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781786818881
Publisher: Bookouture
Published: 2019-06-18T23:00:00+00:00

Fortunately, after all the tests that had been carried out, the doctors didn’t find anything that made them want to keep Nathan in.

Emma had taken her mother home and then returned to the hospital, still full from the indulgent afternoon tea but ready for her appointment with Nathan. At least here it looked like they’d considered the design of their waiting room. There were pictures on the wall, all in shades of purple that subtly matched the paint. It didn’t quite have the tea-and-coffee facilities she’d hoped for, but there was a water fountain, which was as close as she was going to get.

‘Are you sure you’re okay with us doing this?’ Emma asked Nathan for approximately the 108th time.

She just needed to be sure. And it was really hard to be sure when the person she was asking had only just woken up from a three-day coma.

‘They’ve told us if we freeze your eggs and my sperm separately, the chances are much lower. We don’t know what the future holds, but by doing this together we’re at least putting one set of odds in our favour. It makes perfect sense,’ Nathan said. He’d clearly paid attention to the information pamphlet they’d been given.

Emma wished she had such conviction. Nothing seemed to make perfect sense at the moment.

‘But what about after all this? What about five years from now, if we aren’t in contact and we meet new people, and our only option is to have a baby with each other?’ Emma was whispering, not wanting the staff to be aware that their next-of-kin status wasn’t all it was made up to be. She didn’t want to be a pessimist, but they needed to be pragmatic about this. It wasn’t a decision to be made lightly.

‘But we don’t know what life will be like five years from now. We don’t even know what it’ll be like five months from now. All we know is what we have here and now, and if they’re saying this gives us the best chance, we should take it.’

‘This’ll tie us together forever, you realise that?’

‘Does it scare you?’

Lots of things scared Emma at that moment. The thought of Nathan falling asleep and not waking up again. Her surgery and how well it would go. Leaving her mother behind all alone. There were so many things to frighten her, yet the thought of having a baby with Nathan in the future didn’t seem like one of them. Instead it sounded like a delightful impossibility. ‘It doesn’t scare me. I’m more scared about the possibility it might never happen.’

‘In that case, let’s go and make sure it can happen.’

Emma nodded in agreement. There were so many things to overthink, but this wasn’t one of them. Who knew where they were going to be in the future? Letting their DNA forge together was for the purpose of preserving hope.

Whatever their future might hold, it should contain as much of that as possible.

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