Chapter 285:
After seven months
Julie's POV
Seven whole months had passed. Seven long, heavy, and grueling months, where the days crawled with a deadly slowness, as if they were years. Throughout that entire period, I tried desperately, with all the strength and determination I could muster, to cling to the only thing that gave me a reason to keep going in this life and cast a glimmer of light upon my darkness: my son, who was growing and moving inside my womb.
I found myself, instinctively, placing my warm palm over that prominent curve of my belly all the time, feeling his light kicks and rapid pulse, as if shielding myself with him from the cruelty of the past. This fetus had become my fortified fortress, my solid wall with which I faced the outside world and all my fears.
