He closed his eyes.
“Then what?”
“Then a woman came. A nurse who had not been able to have a child for years. She said that if we agreed, she would take the baby, move to another city, and fight for her life. Your mother said that if you knew, you would never let it happen. And if the baby died, you would never recover.”
I barely whispered:
“You gave my child to someone else?”
Martin started crying.
I had never seen him like that before.
“I made a mistake. The biggest mistake of my life. But at that time, I was scared. You had lost blood. The doctors said you needed peace. Your mother convinced me. She said, let at least one child survive. Let you have a peaceful life.”
A peaceful life.
I wanted to scream.
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I wanted to break everything.
But all I managed to ask was:
