Chapter 70

"I like to spoil you!"

" For as long as I can remember, I've been alone! My mother worked too hard to give us a dignified life! She didn't have time to pet me. We barely saw each other! When she arrived, I was sleeping, when I woke up, she had already left! I understood that she needed to work, but I felt very alone! I know it must not have been easy for her either!

He listened intently, still massaging her.

“Ethan, I was so scared today when the world went dark before my eyes. All I could think about was the baby... – and you, I could have added, but pride wouldn't let me.

"It's all right now, dear!"

She removed her legs from his lap, gently, and sat very close to him, wanting ardently to envelop her in a very tight hug. But he just threw his arm over the back of the couch behind her.

"I don't want to be that kind of mother to our baby!"

It was the first time she said our baby. God, how he wanted to hold her! But he was afraid to do it and be disowned.

“An absent mother.

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