At the clinic gate, a 7-year-old collapsed, crying, “Mommy has been sleeping for three days, please save them.” The doctor rushed to help the newborn twins, but as he lifted them, his hands shook. Underneath the babies was a handwritten note from the mother that made the doctor freeze in terror…

his face was an unreadable mask of exhaustion.

“Alina,” he said softly.

My heart seized. She’s dead. I was too late.

“We have your mother,” he said.

Chapter 5: The Awakening

They fought for her life through the darkest hours of the night. She required massive transfusions, surgical intervention to stop the hemorrhaging, and a respirator to breathe for continue reading …