Victor’s words shattered the silence in Alina’s ears. For a moment, she couldn’t even believe she had heard it right.
— Victor… what are you saying…
— Three is too many. I can’t keep that many. Do you have any idea what the cost is? Let’s leave one, let’s keep two. I’m serious.
Alina hugged the little ones lying next to her. Three little faces: helpless, gentle, identical. Her children. Her heart.
— Victor, they’re already born, — her voice trembled, but she forced herself to stay strong. — They’re all ours.
— You don’t understand anything, — she turned sharply. — I didn’t imagine my life like this.
Victor left, slamming the door shut. Alina remained silent, with three newborns who depended only on her.
That evening, Victor’s mother called her. She said in a serious, sharp voice:
— Victor is doing the right thing. It’s impossible to keep three children. Think realistically.
At that moment, Alina understood. The reality was that she was alone. But not alone, with her three little miracles.
She looked at them, holding the youngest’s hand.
— My children… I will not give you anywhere. To no one. Never.
That night she decided her path. Without Victor, without his coldness and calculations.
A few days later, Victor came again. In his eyes, neither pain nor joy.
— I’m telling you for the last time. I will not ruin my life. Either you choose, or I’m leaving.
Alina looked at him for a long time. The man she had ever loved.
The man for whom she was ready to give up her whole life.
— Go, Victor.
— What?
— If your three children are a burden to you, I don’t need you.
Victor left. And that day, for the first time, Alina felt that her life was not falling apart, but that something that should have ended long ago was ending.
He received state support, neighbors from the village came to help, then a job offer came to start a business at home. Life slowly began to go its own way.
And every time he sat next to the three little beds, his heart was filled with one feeling:
“I made the right choice.”
Because sometimes family is not the people who promised to love you.
Arevyan is the ones who are already connected to you by the law of nature:
three little hearts that chose him.
