Oh, Liam, I thought, you are a hopeless romantic after all. You have been so misjudged, but not by me. But what would you be like if you knew the truth and if you knew what bargain I had made with my father? Looking into Liam's trusting and loving eyes now made me despise my father more than I had thought possible. Look at the situation in which he had placed me. He had never really agreed to let me go. He had let me have this fling with a normal life, which would ironically bring me more pain than a long life with him and my sisters.
I returned to work with Liam, and two days later, he and I went into my doctor's office to have the diagnostic procedure. She removed some chorionic villus cells from my placenta at the point where they attached to the uterine wall. Using an ultrasound guide, she moved a thin catheter through my cervix to my placenta and, as she described it, gently suctioned the CV cells into a catheter.
