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FORTY FOUR | Different Circumstances
[VLADIMIR]
I’m nervous.
It’s difficult to admit a weak emotion like this, but nothing else explains the way I feel right about now.
I’m fidgeting. And that is something I never do. Save for the day when Hazel was born. Aurora was screaming like hell. I still remember. She was in so much pain. I was so restless, not able to do anything about it. It made me want to pull my hair out.
I used to think that my life changed when I got married to Aurora.
But that is hardly the truth.
The fact is that my entire life turned upside down when I held Hazel for the first time. Her tiny little fingers in my larger ones. She was so little, so pure, I thought I didn’t deserve her. Every time Rose slipped her into my arms, I would wash my hands at least five times. Hoping to get rid of the blood–the sins–I committed all these years. I was afraid that I would taint her. Frightened that I would hurt her small
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