Chapter 119

He saved me a lot of heartache. If he cried at this parting moment, I was afraid I wouldn't be able to move my legs. I gave him one last hug and kissed his face before handing him over to Xavier's mother.

At the moment I turned around, I didn't see the baby raise his short little hands in the air and grasp them, his eyes fixed dead on my back.

Xavier's mom had a sad look in her eyes as she took the baby's soft hand, put it to her lips, and kissed it, then turned straight away.

The moment I walked into the airport, I thought I heard my baby crying, but when I looked back, Xavier's mother had long since walked away with her baby in her arms.

"It can't be my child crying," I reassured myself. "This child is as cold and serious as his father; he will be fine even if I am not with him."

The plane broke through the rift and lifted off. The overpowering change in air pressure made my eardrums hurt and my s