Disclaimer: I do not own the Kane Chronicles.
The overhead lights flickered above the hospital corridor in the maternity ward. Sadie hated hospitals. People died here, so he was allowed with no questions asked. He stared through the thick glass window at the rows of newborn babies. Three down and the fourth from the left, just like its mother. He had been so sure once that he loved Sadie, but now he was unsure. However, he was sure of his love for the small thing wrapped in-between that pink blanket.
A hand placed itself on his shoulder. The soft music-like voice of the hand's owner murmured in awe, "Isn't she beautiful?"
His lips couldn't help but smile as he uttered, "There's never been a more perfect child."
She smiled. Her gaze was locked on her babe. "You're going back to Sadie, I know. I'm not going to fight you. Just promise me our daughter will know her father," she bluntly stated.
He nodded. "Of course, she's my daughter. I'm not going to do what my parents did to me." He couldn't, he wouldn't let this child bear the same scars he bore. "But Marisol," he paused as the young girl sniffled, "Sadie can't ever know."
Marisol looked at him. Her fingers wrapped around his. Her kind crystal blue eyes met his as she softly replied, "I know. Sadie's your future; you have no other path to choose. Just let me be delusional tonight, let me dream of a perfect life between just us and her, and maybe," another sniffle," a few other children."
He pulled her close to him, allowing her auburn curls to be pressed against his chest. "Roselle Lucia," he lovingly let the name roll off his tongue. Marisol had chosen perfect. For that moment he let himself be lost in her dream. Her father walking her down the aisle in a plush white dress, him kissing her in front of the sunset on their wedding anniversary, them dropping Roselle off at school on her first day, and them playing with their precious children in the their backyard in the Louisiana summer. Perfect, tears threatened to flood his eyes, but he held them back. Sadie, he was Sadie's.
He loved Sadie, right?