One Month
Chiara's POV Swollen, pink, puffy eyes stare back at me in the mirror sympathetically acknowledging my lack of sleep. As the minutes have turned into hours, I can’t stop contemplating all the things that could go wrong today. Viviana has confirmed that it was Teddy’s day off, so he would be waiting at the hospital for us all to arrive. He has been told not to approach us, but is that a realistic demand? Asking a father seeing his son for the first time to have the self-restraint to not reach out and hold him, not to smile when he looks at him. Worse than all these feelings is the utter dread that Vincent will discover the truth, and he will know that I have lied to him. After I had demanded that he change his world for me, I was responding to his efforts with lies. It bothers me much mor
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