In the world of bad investments, wouldn’t nearly seven years of fertility treatments be right at the top? At first they could keep up with whatever insurance didn’t cover by going to his safe deposit box, handing over a brick of cash. But it didn’t take that long for the box to empty. All that money—just gone. He stopped himself from saying it aloud, but they knew each other so well that the air between them became legible, and she could read it anyway.