Chapter 750

Ria and Tara were leaving the clinic where they had been attending a surrogacy session. Tara had been through a battery of initial tests gamely. She had made it clear to the doctor they met that she was fully prepared for the role of a gestational surrogate, who as the doctor fastidiously pointed out, is called the "birth mother." Doctor Evans, a woman with a head of white hair, had seemed critical of the fact that Tara had never been pregnant in her life.