The man sat upright on the sofa, his dark eyes black as ink.

After a moment, he asked gently, “How did you figure it out?”

Francesca stared straight at him, her lips trembling slightly. “Because Julian without his memories would never get a vasectomy. He wouldn’t understand that kind of pain—what it costs to bring a life into the world.”

When she gave birth to Jaden and Serena, it had been a brutal delivery, a hemorrhage that nearly ...