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A woman in a cemetery - Source: Midjourney
Her face wrinkled and she squeezed the baby louder, breathing loudly as if she was trying hard not to cry.
"I didn't know... I didn't know it was your husband. I didn't know that James was with someone else..."
The cold air seemed to thicken around us. The baby moaned.
"What are you talking about?" Excuse me? What are you saying? ”
The tears came to his eyes.
A woman upset in a cemetery - Source: Midjourney
"James. James is my baby's father, ma'am. ”
The ground beneath me moved violently, and I was sure I was going to collapse.
"No," I stifled. "No, he is not. It cannot be. It's... no. ”
Her lips shook as she nodded.
A Woman Upset - Source: Midjourney
"I couldn't even tell her," she whispered. "I found out that I was pregnant a week before it disappeared from the surface of the earth. I only learned of his death recently. I stumbled upon someone who knew us both, a woman from his office. She introduced us. And she told me. I didn't even know where he was buried until she told me. We live above the supermarket. In a small apartment. ”
His words struck me like fists slamming my body. Each of them was harder than the previous one. James, my James, had lived a life of which I knew nothing.
A couple standing together - Source: Midjourney
"You're lying," I said, with a broken voice.
"I'd like me," she said. “If that were the case, my child would have the opportunity to meet his father. ”
There was a moment of silence before she regained her word.
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