Chapter Forty-Five

Camila Silva

As I finish getting ready, I take my body backwards, running my hand over my belly. It is slightly marked, but those who see it from the outside can't tell that it is a pregnancy. Which doesn't surprise me, after all I am only one month pregnant and yet I already love it in an unconditional way.

In the pregnancy of the twins, my belly took a while to appear, but from the fourth month on I had the feeling that it was getting bigger every week. My huge belly, the constant kicking in my ribs or the feet so swollen that sometimes I even needed to drain. I really got huge.

Pregnancy does have its glamorous moments, but it also has its troubles. It was a bit complicated, in some parts quite painful, but it was all worth it when I felt my little ones in my arms. An unparalleled love consumed my chest in such a way that I even forgot about the unbearable pain after a normal birth.

I feel arms wrap around my waist, with hands resting right on top of my belly. I face the man throug