—Sophia’s POVI didn’t realize how cold my hands were until Ethan covered them with his. His palms were warm. Steady. I hadn’t touched him like this in a while, without a wall, without a fight, without pain hanging like smoke between us.His thumb brushed against the side of my wrist, and I felt my chest tighten.“I still remember the sound you made,” he said, voice quiet, “when you first heard his heartbeat. It echoed inside me for weeks.”I bit my lip, holding back the wave rushing up my throat. “I thought I lost that sound. I thought I lost everything.”He squeezed my hand gently. “You didn’t. We didn’t.”Irene stirred lightly in his sleep beside us, his small body cocooned between two people trying to unlearn years of ache.I turned to Ethan slowly. “He’s so perfect, it scares me. Like… like life’s trying to make up for the hell we both went through.”Ethan's eyes dropped to our son. “Maybe it is. Or maybe he’s the part of us that never stopped believing, even when we did.”My he
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