The Moment of Waiting
Inside the hospital hallway, the atmosphere was suffocatingly tense.
Alejandro stood leaning his back against the cold wall outside the delivery room. His dress shirt was unbuttoned, his hair disheveled. Two hours had passed. Every cry of pain from Elena echoing from behind the closed doors felt like a knife plunging straight into his heart.
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He closed his eyes, remembering the times he thought he had lost her forever. The time she was kidnapped. The time he stood on the balcony alone, staring down into the darkness. The fear of losing her was far more terrifying than any bullet.
He prayed. The man who didn't believe in God was now praying with every fiber of his being.
