Elena povIt had been a whole week since the warehouse incident. Seven days of cold hospital walls, constant beeping monitors, and restless nights. Seven days of staring at the incubator where my babies slept, too small, too fragile, yet breathing and alive. Nick had been with me every single day, helping me feed them, change them, teaching me little things I didn’t even know about babies.But Alex… Alex hadn’t opened his eyes once.Not even for me.I tried to avoid going near his room. Part of me was scared, scared of what I’d see, scared of facing the truth, scared of the guilt that never let me sleep. It was easier to busy myself with the twins, to pretend that maybe, just maybe, he would wake up on his own.But yet no sign of him waking up.I was sitting on the bed, carefully holding one of the babies in my arms, rocking gently while trying to get her to drink from the tiny bottle the nurse had prepared. The room was quiet, the soft sound of sucking the only noise until a sudde
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