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The Child Between Worlds
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After stocking the house for the winter holidays and waiting for my wife to come home, I found an anonymous advice post online. "My lover died suddenly of an illness and left behind a baby boy. My husband is infertile. How can I convince him to raise the child willingly?" Someone in the comments offered a vicious solution. "Easy. Tell your husband you found an abandoned baby beside the road. Say the child feels destined for both of you and awaken his desire to become a father. "Once he believes the baby was sent to him, your desperate husband will treasure your secret child." The calculation behind it was breathtaking. Just as I was marveling at how impossible it is to read a woman's heart, my wife came through the door carrying a bundled infant. "Aaron, look at him. I just found this baby in the alley behind the campus. Somebody left him out there in the middle of winter. "Fortunately, he smiled the moment I held him. I think he was sent to us for a reason. We should begin the adoption process tomorrow."
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The Child Between Worlds Chapter 8
I shook my head violently and held Vivian's hand between both of mine, trying to warm her."No. This isn't punishment. You were trying to save me."Vivian's focus began to fade, but she continued staring at my face as though she wanted to carve it into her soul."I didn't have any other way."I couldn't watch you die, Aaron. Not even once."Eight times. Every time I lifted you from a pool of blood, another part of my heart shattered."Her fingers trembled as she tried to touch my face.I quickly pressed her cold palm against my cheek.Her skin was soft and freezing, bringing comfort and unbearable grief at once."The child is innocent."He belongs to both of us."Raise him and stay alive. Please."Don't try to die again."I'm begging you."Her voice grew weaker until the final words dissolved into a long breath.The hand against my face lost its strength and fell heavily.The heart monitor released a continuous tone, and the line flattened.That line did not only annou
The Child Between Worlds Chapter 7
By the eighth reset, Vivian had broken.She stopped trying to ease my despair and chose an extreme way to shatter the cycle.Using her knowledge of theoretical physics, she found a fracture between parallel timelines.She discovered another version of me: Elias Rowan.In his world, I was healthy and fertile.But that world's Vivian had died young in a traffic accident, leaving Elias alone.The Vivian from my world used the cost of temporal displacement to lure Elias across realities.She told him this was the future and promised that if he helped create a child, she could revive the wife he had lost.Elias believed her.He cooperated with the experiment and remained hidden in the abandoned house outside Briarwood.Did Vivian treat him well?Yes.But whenever she looked at him, her eyes held grief and guilt.Because she knew she was killing him.The laws governing temporal displacement couldn't be reversed.Two identical souls could not coexist in the same timeline for lo
The Child Between Worlds Chapter 6
I escaped through a damaged section of the window.But once I reached the street, I had no idea where to go.Where could I possibly run?Call the police? Would anyone believe this story?Return to my parents? No. Vivian would find me there.The fog inside my mind grew heavier, filled with voices arguing over one another."Aaron, why won't you die?""Aaron, the child is innocent."Without realizing it, I wandered into the road.The streets were empty before dawn, and the streetlights stretched my shadow across the pavement.Suddenly, blinding headlights swept toward me from the side."BEEEEEP!"The horn tore through the night.An out-of-control freight truck came directly at me.For one instant, time stopped.I watched the vehicle approach and felt no fear, only relief.Death might be easier.If I died, I would never have to face the truth.A violent impact sounded.But the truck did not strike me.At the final second, someone rushed from the side and slammed me into
The Child Between Worlds Chapter 5
When we returned home, Vivian shoved me into the primary bedroom and locked the door from the outside.The windows had been sealed, she took my phone, and she disconnected the internet.I was being held prisoner.Through the heavy door, I could hear her pacing in the living room.Sometimes I heard muffled sobbing.Other times, I heard her whispering urgently into a phone."He found it. The memories are beginning to overlap. What do I do?"The breach won't close. Is this attempt going to fail too?"No. I will not lose him for a ninth time. I won't."I pressed my ear to the door, cold spreading through my body.A ninth time?What did that mean?Had I already died eight times?On the third night of my confinement, exhaustion finally took her. Heavy breathing came from the living room.She had barely slept in days and guarded the door like a jailer.I stared into the dark night beyond the glass and remembered the journal.The first page had been dated three years earlier.
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