"When the doctor asked me to consider aborting the child, Elliot said nothing. His silence is his tacit agreement that the child should be aborted.

Avery took a deep breath and continued bitterly, "He is the child's father, how could he treat his own child so heartlessly?"

It took a great deal of thought before Mike finally said, "Perhaps, he is used to listening to doctors."

"He never listens to doctors. When he was sick, he would smoke and drink whenever he pleased. A person like him will