Chapter 70

My brother's ex-girlfriend's reaction was to cry until I couldn't take it anymore. She hugged me, and I tried to balance the umbrellas on our heads while returning the hug. Her belly compressed mine, and for a quick moment, I almost thought the baby was moving. The day she informed us about the pregnancy, I was curious to know if they wouldn't be twins. Everyone knows that a family with that type of genetic inheritance is always likely to reproduce more copies. However, she ended my hopes when she gave us the first ultrasound. It was a single baby, but it was a boy. This made me believe that only I could have twins to increase the branches of the family tree, but now without Edward, this idea of children was even more distant.

"I want my son to be present in your life," she said in a brittle and sobbing voice. "I want him to know that his father was not weak, that he endured more than we knew, and that he will be watching over all of us in he