Total pages in book: 60
Estimated words: 56201 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 281(@200wpm)___ 225(@250wpm)___ 187(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 56201 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 281(@200wpm)___ 225(@250wpm)___ 187(@300wpm)
I open my eyes to meet Alina’s gaze. A fat tear clings to her lower lashes as she stares at me, and it feels like a thousand serrated blades are slicing through my heart, one by one. This is what I’d so coldly counted on when I took her: that once there would be a baby, she’d love it. She’d be attached to it, and thus to me. I didn’t think it would happen at the embryo stage, but I would’ve been happy if it had.
Our baby girl.
The blades slice faster, harder.
“Alinyonok…” My voice is as raw as the look in her eyes. “I can’t lose you.” I cup her face and press my forehead to hers. “I need you to fight. And I’ll be by your side as you do. We’ll fight this together.”
I can feel the puffs of her breath on my lower face. They’re coming in a fast, unsteady rhythm, catching in her throat once in a while. Then a shudder ripples through her, and a sob tears from her mouth as she wraps her arms around my neck, buries her face in my throat, and begins to cry.
She cries in my arms for the next hour, and all I can do is hold her.
I’ll always hold her, no matter what comes our way.