Chapter 4

On the fifth day of waiting, I sold all the jewelry Kobe had given me and donated the money to a rural education fund. By the thirteenth day, I had wrapped up all the paperwork needed to move overseas. On the nineteenth day, Kobe offered to come with me for a prenatal check-up, but before he could finish his sentence, his phone rang, and he rushed off. I knew that only Katelyn could make him react with such urgency.

By the twenty-fifth day, I had arranged for my father to be moved to a specialist hospital with help from an…