her hand on her belly and felt their movements. She believed that after ten years of pain, life had finally smiled at her.
But no one could imagine what kind of trial was waiting ahead.
The girls were born earlier than expected. At first, there was joy in the maternity ward. Two tiny voices filled the room. Maria smiled through her tears, while Daniel stood near the door, unable to speak.
But very quickly, a strange silence appeared inside that happiness.
The doctors examined the babies longer than usual. They looked at one another with the kind of expression a mother never forgets. It was the look of people who knew something but did not want to say it right away.
At first, they said the girls were weak, that they had been born prematurely, and that they needed special monitoring. But Maria felt that the truth did not end
