Jed did not inform Avery of her pregnancy because he was afraid that she might want to keep the child.

There was no way that Avery could keep the child, and she should not think of keeping the child.

She had to wait nine months before she could give birth to the child, and that meant that she had to wait nine months till she could have her brain surgery. It was impossible to predict how bad the tumor would be in nine months.

She might not even live past these nine months.

Of course, if she was lucky, she might be able to give birth to the child and undergo brain surgery, but the chances of success would be extremely slim.

He was afraid that Avery might risk it.

In his opinion, there were only two possible outcomes if Avery insisted on having the child.

The first was that her child survived and she died. The second was that they both died.

So that she might live, he had decided that he was not going to tell her anything— no matter the outcome. For the past two days, he had