Chapter Seven
WILDER
The look on Sterling’s face as they put the little boy onto his chest, as he carefully touched him… It was so beautiful. It totally made up for Sterling almost breaking all the bones in my hand. But that’s okay.
“Do you want to cut the cord?” Stephen hands me a pair of scissors and holds up the umbilical cord a little.
I look at Sterling, maybe he wants to do this himself? But Sterling nods at me and then the chord. I look at the cord in front of me, it looks so…
It looks like a lifeline of life, which it has been for the past nine months for our baby. And now he needs to learn to live in this world.
I put the scissors to the cord, a little surprised by the resistance of it.
But as the blades slide through the cord, that resistance disappears and the next moment
