He lowered his head.
“Yes. And I’m deeply sorry that I scared you like that.”
I smiled.
“Now I understand why you were so emotional.”
That day, when my father grabbed my hand in the forest and said, “Finally, we’re alone. Come here, let me kiss you,” I was terrified. I thought his strange behavior was hiding something unforgivable.
But the truth was that he wanted to give me a kiss from the mother who never got the chance to watch me grow up.
And now I have not one, but two mothers.
One gave me life.
The other raised me and loved me throughout my entire life.
And my father finally fulfilled the most important promise he had made nineteen years earlier. ❤️