I wanted to smile, softened. The three of them really did look very peaceful and ordinary.
I sat down slowly in the other armchair, where Agent Aguilera had been that morning, and sighed. I already knew that Alexander had seen and heard me perfectly, but he was deliberately ignoring me, focused on the silent images of the news channel. I didn’t want to say anything, so as not to wake the children who were sleeping so peacefully, so I just stayed there, watching television the way he was, just as silent.
His voice suddenly startled me:
“…I had a plan,” he began, after a while of invisible tension between the two of us. “In case we had a son, I mean. When Anya became pregnant for the first time, I was a little scared. However, I assumed that if the child was a boy, and considering my own
