“I… I wanted to. But everything destr0yed around me. My parents pushed me, you were drowning in work… I thought you’d hate me, thought you’d abandon me…”
Alejandro stood silently, then received the swaddled baby again, his hands shaking. A powerful wave of recognition and discovery swept through him, awakening a fierce instinct: the instinct of a father.
—Valeria… no matter the past, I won’t ever abandon you or our son, he announced, firm and resolute.
She finally lifted her eyes, red but shining with a fragile hope. From outside, the newborn’s cry rang through the hallway, declaring not just his arrival—but the rebirth of two souls who once lost each other.
