Sarah swallowed hard. “I wasn’t even awake. I had a C-section under general anesthesia. They told me everything went fine. No complications. One healthy baby girl. That’s all.”
There was a long pause before Alicia said what they were both thinking:
“We were never told the truth.”
The next morning, Sarah drove to the hospital in San Diego where Emma had been born. She had already called to request her medical records, but they told her older files might be incomplete.
She parked outside, her heart racing, hands trembling as she walked in.
At the records office, an older clerk handed her paperwork.
