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Davit
“Please,”she said, her voice a strangled cry.
“Take the baby from you?” I said, blinking at her.
My words had the effect of making her cry harder, and I reached for her face, reminding myself to be gentle, held her until she looked into my eyes.
“Please, Davit,” she said.
I didn’t say anything, not at first, too stunned to really respond.
Instead, I watched her as the tears fell, brushed them away, or at least tried to, until my fingers were wet with them.
She looked away, and I held her like that until the tears slowed, and then finally stopped.
I don’t know how long that was, but when she breathed out deep and met my eyes, I asked the question that I could barely allow myself to form.
“You think I would do that?”
She narrowed her eyes and, took a deep, gulping breath.
“Amethyst, you think I would do that? Take the baby from you?” I repeated.
“I know what family means to you,” she finally said.
I couldn’t interpret her voice, wasn’t sure if I heard hope, resignation, or something else altogether.
“I…”
It was my turn to trail off, to lose my voice.
I took a deep breath, tried to calm my swirling emotions, and then met her eyes again.
“You know what happened to my mother. Know that I never got to see her face, hear her voice. Feel her touch,” I said.
“Yes,” she responded.
“You know that, and you think I would do the same thing to my own child? Deprive him of the love that I have always longed for?”
Her eyes widened. “I—”
“You think I’m a monster,” I said quietly.
I had told myself I needed to be patient, that she had acted on instinct, but I realized how mistaken I had been.
She had run because she was afraid.
Not only did she not trust me, she thought I was evil.
“I—”
“It doesn’t matter,” I said.
“Davit—”
“No. It doesn’t matter what you think about me. Just like it doesn’t matter what I think about you. I had no intention of taking the baby, Amethyst.”
