Be Happy

"How is she?"

"Katia is resting." His son-in-law-smiled, and held out a bundle to him. "Would you care to hold her?"

"Yes."

He never got the chance to know his daughter. He never got to see his granddaughter grow into the fine woman she had become. Or to tell the Sophia he loved her, at least not the way he wanted to, and that was every day they were to be together in wedded bliss.

There were so many opportunities in life he had missed.

But as he held his great granddaughter close to him, Anton realized he never had any more reason to be happy.

"Welcome to the world, Alicia."