Kira

The two weeks ended on a Thursday.

Dara came in the morning with her bag and her precise questions and ran the assessment with the thoroughness she brought to everything, and when she was done she sat back and told me the flag had resolved and the marker was clean and the pregnancy was tracking as it should.

I sat with that for a moment.

Dante was beside me and I felt him receive it the same way I did, the specific quality of relief that came from something you had been holding at a ...