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She shook her head ‘It’s all right I can e’

‘I know you’re perfectly capable of , but you don’t have to do it on your own At tiiven him support the day he’d finally talked about the misery he’d kept locked away for years ‘It’s what friends do,’ he reh he are he wanted to be more than just friends, noasn’t the time or the place to discuss it

‘Thank you’

She left his office again, and was back two hours later with the test results He took one look at theo and break the news as gently as we can’

‘Mrs Scott’s husband was able to get here within twentyon time’

‘I’ you,’ he said softly ‘You run your clinic the way that works for you’ He followed Madison back to her patient and introduced hi a bit off colour for a few days, Maddie tellswith your scan, show that you have a condition that we call a partial nancy I’m sorry’

‘What does it htly

‘Itwas fertilised Norets twenty-three chromosomes fronancy the dad’s chromosomes are duplicated’

Mrs Scott stared at hi ‘But how can that happen?’

‘So Instead of twins developing, just one baby develops—with sixty-nine chromosomes instead of forty-six’

‘So I’ a baby after all?’ Mrs Scott’s eyes filled with tears

‘I’m so sorry’ Theo reached out and squeezed her free hand ‘I know it’s a shock, and it’s probably the last thing you want to think about, but your health is ht now Sonancy, the ain, so you’ll need to visit a specialist centre in London for follow-up tests for the next six months’