Now he protected them with the whole body.
Lucia approached an old wooden drawer.
He opened it.
He pulled out a tiny hospital bracelet.
He put it on the table.
“He was the one who almost didn’t make it,” he said, pointing to the little boy who had run to Matthew in the field.
Matthew took the bracelet.
She was too small to imagine around a human doll.
He held her between two fingers while looking at the boy.
“What happened?”
Lucia took a deep breath.
Pregnancy had been complicated from the start. When he found out he was expecting three babies, he didn’t have time to think about the surprise or happiness he had ever imagined sharing with Matthew. First he had to think about how to pay the queries, how to keep working and how to prevent the debts from ending up taking away what little they had.
