The Secret Between Us
Chapter 48

Without a doubt this pain I’m feeling right now is the most beautiful of all, I feel that everything I’ve been through has been worth it, but I need him. I don’t want our daughter to be born without Izan with us – Mia, you must start pushing – the doctor tells me, but I shake my head.

-I need my husband! – I cry out, but the contractions are getting stronger.

-The baby can’t wait, please push,” he informs me and I don’t know if I’m crying because of the pain or because he’s not here.

It makes me angry that our whole life has been managed at the whim of our families and who we are, and that they have even made us miss out on this moment together. All this is going through my head in the middle of the pain, when suddenly I feel a hand holding mine, “Here I am my beauty, I wasn’t going to leave you alone,” I hear his voice and when I look to my side, I see him sitting in a wheelchair with a nurse who finishes settling him next to me.

-Thank you! – I exclaim between contractions -Thank you for never leaving me- I manage to say, but the pain takes over me again, but this time everything has a different flavour, he is by my side.

-I will always be with you, never doubt it,” he says leaving a k**s on my back and then looks me in the eyes, “Now be braver than you already are for our princess to be born, I am here,” he whispers and I can only nod when a strong contraction makes me scream and push at the same time.

-That’s Mia,” exclaims the doctor and by now I feel my body just telling me when it’s time to push again, it’s as if I’ve suddenly gathered strength from somewhere for this moment. I feel powerful, but even more I feel complete with him.

It is in an instant that I realise that the world stops no matter how bad or how good it and its people are. It is our daughter’s crying that makes us both cry and now I understand everything… in this moment I realise that loving him was the best decision of my life, that following him in whatever was never a mistake and that I would go through everything once again no matter what.

-This is your daughter,” a nurse says a few minutes later as she walks towards us with her in her arms and seconds later places her in mine. It is seeing her face, her hair, her hands… all of her that makes me understand that perfection exists.

-Look at her my love,” I say to Izan and I tilt her a little so that he can see her and when I look at him I realise that he is crying just like me.

-It’s beautiful… perfect… it’s a miracle…” He says taking her little hand.

-Our miracle,” I tell him through tears that this time are of emotion.

-I love you Mia,” he says and looks at our little girl, “I love you too, you are the most beautiful thing that has ever happened to me in my life, and for you everything is worth it, I swear… I will never in my life let them hurt you, my little one,” he says and there is no man more perfect than him in this world.

For us everything starts today, we are no longer Mia and Izan, those lovers who saw each other in secret because their love was their best secret. Now we are Mia and Izan, those spouses who love each other madly and have welcomed their first daughter Zaria, for whom they will always fight and find a way to be a family with no more shadows of the past that haunt us and dictate that our love is wrong.