A young «mother» left her newborn home alone for three days because she was too busy enjoying her irresponsible lifestyle… But when she returned, the crib was silent.
At first, Maya didn’t understand the silence.
She stood in the doorway of her apartment with her weekend bag slung over one shoulder, her makeup smudged beneath her eyes, and the smell of campfire smoke from the lake still clinging to her clothes. For $
And then he made sure it wasn’t.
He blocked her number, deleted their photos, and left Maya alone with a baby she had never planned for and a loneliness she had no idea how to survive.
The people around her all kept saying the same thing.
“You’ll feel different once the baby is born.”
“You’ll become a mother the moment you see him.”
“Everything will make sense when you hold him in your arms.”
