I’ve been trying to get pregnant for 3 years with no success. Miss Adabio, based on these test results, you should have no trouble conceiving naturally. In fact, your fertility markers are exceptional for your age. I’m actually surprised you haven’t conceived already. Doctor, I think there’s been some mistake.
Let me double check the information. Birth date, November 15th. That was her. Yes, but I didn’t have any tests done. The tests were ordered by your husband, Austin Adabio. He said you were too emotional about the results to call yourself, so he wanted to handle the follow-up. Austin had ordered fertility tests for her without her knowledge, then lied about the results.
Dr. Bellow, what exactly did my husband tell you about my previous test results? He said you’d been told you had unexplained infertility and that you were having a difficult time emotionally accepting the diagnosis. He wanted updated testing to see if anything had changed. And what do these new results show? They show that whoever told you that you had fertility problems was either incorrect or lying.
Miss Adabio, you’re one of the most fertile women I’ve tested in my 20-year career. She hung up the phone and sat in her folding chair, trying to process what she’d just learned. Austin had secretly ordered new fertility tests for her, discovered that she’d never had fertility problems, and hidden the results while filing for divorce and getting Cynthia pregnant.
Austin had known for months that her infertility was a lie. He’d known when he said he didn’t want to pursue treatments. he’d known when he filed for divorce, claiming they were incompatible because of their fertility struggles. Austin had discovered that she was perfectly capable of getting pregnant. And instead of telling her, he’d used that information to justify leaving her for someone else.
But why would Austin hide fertility test results that proved she wasn’t broken? The answer hit her like a lightning bolt. Austin hadn’t left her because she couldn’t get pregnant. Austin had left her because she could get pregnant and he didn’t want to have children with her. All those years of fertility treatments, hormone injections, doctor appointments, and emotional devastation, Austin had been sabotaging their chances of conceiving while making her believe she was defective.
