chapter 175

“Please stay,” Elio had heard when he was about to open the door.

He slowly turned around thinking he had heard wrong but Carmen was staring at him but for him, that wasn't enough. It could happen to look at a person like that so, when he once again tried to leave, the latter nodded and he felt a new power transcend him. He retraced his steps and took a place on the edge of the bed, he squeezed her hand in his, smiling at her. It was as if what had been broken inside him was being rebuilt.

When Carmen's belly was revealed to him, he thought he had tears in his eyes. He had never seen anything like it and it was like a masterpiece. He wanted to spend his whole life caressing that rounded belly. He watched the doctor do everything she had to do and meanwhile Carmen was staring at the screen and yet he saw nothing. Everything seemed to be the same thing and he didn't understand how they managed to distinguish everything.

“This is your baby, Carmen."