Ricardo felt like he couldn’t breathe.
—Doctor… I was with them —he murmured—. With all three of them.
It wasn’t a proud confession. It was an exhausted, almost humiliating admission.
The doctor nodded.
—That’s why I said that was just the first piece of news.
Nobody moved.
Outside, in the garden, a sprinkler began to lap water over the grass with absurd, almost offensive regularity.
—The results were in a normal scenario —the doctor stated—. So, before delivering any conclusion, I asked for an additional review.
We repeat the analyses, expand genetic markers and request a second sample, either only of blood, or also of buccal tissue and cryopreserved semen.
Ricardo frowned.
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