“That’s right.”
“And so we come back to my original question: Why has Michael Rosen been so generous and helpful to you and your family?”
“Because we, here at the clinic, have been extremely helpful to him and his family.”
“How so?”
“Dr. Rosen’s only grandson. Michael’s sole nephew. We had a hand in that. Fifteen years ago, Dr. Rosen paid for his daughter-in-law to undergo certain fertility treatments.”
“Were you here at the time?”
“Yes. Judith Rosen and her husband, I believe his name is David …”
“That’s correct.”
“They had been trying to get pregnant with no success for several years. Judith was rapidly approaching her fortieth birthday.”
“So her biological clock was ticking.”
“Very loudly. Plus, her father-in-law, Dr. Rosen, desperately wanted grandchildren. So, after several unsuccessful but costly attempts at other fertility clinics, the Rosens ended up here.”
“These sorts of treatments, they’re quite expensive?”
“They can be. In Vitro Fertilization. Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection. Therapeutic Donor Insemination. Controlled Ovarian Hyperstimulation. Frozen Embryo Transfer.”
Man. Making babies never sounded so un-sexy.
“Each of these procedures can cost several thousand dollars.”
“And Judith’s father-in-law paid for it all?”
Revae Dunn finally cracks a smile. “What can I say? The man wanted a grandbaby.”
“And Michael gave you a Jaguar, found your sister a job and gave her a Z-car, just to say thanks for helping his sister-in-law give birth to his only nephew?”
“Michael Rosen is an extremely generous individual.”
“Then why didn’t he pay for the treatments?”
“Excuse me?”
“If Michael Rosen wanted a nephew so badly, why didn’t he pay for all the procedures? Surely he could’ve afforded the costs much more easily than either his father or older brother.”