Chapter 9
Wade took a big breath, held it for a beat, let it out. “Elvira can’t have children, Cass.”
“You mean she can’t have any more children? Something happened with Olaf?”
Wade shook his head. “She had polyps on her uterus when she was still a teenager. She had a hysterectomy before we even got married.”
Cassidy felt the littlest bit dizzy. “So, what, you used like a surrogate?”
Wade nodded. “Know who it was?”
Suddenly, impossibly, Cassidy did. But he couldn’t put it into words. A simple yes was more than he could push through the tightness in his throat. He raised an eyebrow, and Wade nodded.
“She padded,” he said. “We wanted to keep the freak show factor to a minimum. Her sister gave us some eggs. We did IVF with my swimmers, obviously.”