Chapter 85

“What did you miss? I inquired in a concerned tone. I got up on my elbows and looked at his pragmatic face.

“Hmm, darling, you're going to have three babies. Two are in the same bag “he pointed to the picture” and the other is in a different one. She probably missed it, or was still too small to be seen.

But clearly they are triplets.

I gasped for a moment, did he say three? triplets? “M… ma… what? "I blurted out in anguish." Per…ba…co… “Annabelle? Are you OK? She is very pale.

His voice was heard far away from my ears.

She had said three?

“Three babies? How… how? Does it fit three? I stammered out of control. Suddenly I was short of breath and it was hard for me to breathe.

Three?

Shit, shit, shit, shit.

My vision slowly darkened.

“Patricia, bring some water, I think she's going to faint” was the last thing I heard from the doctor because, indeed, I fainted.

My eyes opened slowly and carefully; my