Beneath the Surface
the nurse said quietly, smiling before she slipped out, leaving us alone.
I stepped closer, slowly until I was standing over them. My throat burned and my chest ached.
I looked at the baby, so impossibly small. She had Lila’s nose. The same delicate lips. I reached out, hesitant, and brushed a finger against her tiny hand. She gripped it instinctively, her whole hand barely wrapping around the tip of my finger.
And just like that, the world cracked open.
Tears I hadn’t realized I was holding back spilled freely now. I had faced billion dollar losses without flinching. I had buried people, burned empires, walked through boardrooms ready to destroy men twice my size but this? This tiny miracle
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