Chapter 5 - The Baby ArrivesI went into labor six weeks earlier than expected.
It happened at 3:14 a.m.
My water broke.
Doctors rushed into the room.
Adrian stood outside the delivery room.
I held his hand.
“I'm scared.”
“I know.”
“What if something happens?”
“Nothing is happening to you.”
I looked at him.
“You can't promise that.”
“No.”
He squeezed my hand.
“But I'll be here.”
The delivery was difficult.
Pain consumed everything.
Then finally...
A cry.
A tiny, furious cry.
The doctor smiled.
“It's a boy.”
I began crying.
“My son?”
“Yes.”
They placed him against my chest.
He was tiny.
Fragile.
Beautiful.
I touched his cheek.
“Hello, baby.”
Adrian stood beside me.
Tears filled his eyes.
“What are you going to name him?” the nurse asked.
I looked at Adrian.
Then at my son.
“Alexander.”
Adrian closed his eyes.
“After my father?”
I nodded.
“After the man who found us.”
He kissed my forehead.
“I love you.”
It was the first time he had ever said it.
And I believed him.
Not because he was my father.
Because he had proven it.
He had flown into a storm for me.
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Victor had pushed me into one.
There was a difference.
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