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Elias hadn’t touched Lena’s phone since the ambulance. It sat on her bedside table, a black rectangle mirroring the abyss in his chest. For two weeks, its silent presence had been a monument to the laughter, the plans, the life that had been so abruptly, brutally snatched away. Now, amidst the hushed chaos of new parenthood, it felt like an accusation.
Two weeks. Two weeks since Lena’s radiant smile had filled their living room, her hand resting on her swollen belly, a silent promise to the world. Two weeks since he’d kissed her goodbye, telling her to be strong, to bring their daughter into the world. Two weeks since the doctors had delivered the news, a clinical, detached explanation of complications, a baby born healthy, a mother lost forever.
He was a father. He had a daughter. A tiny, fragile being whose cries echoed the emptiness in his soul. They called her Baby Girl Doe at the hospital. He hadn’t been able to give her a name. Every name Lena had loved, every name they’d debated, now felt like a cruel joke, a ghost of a future that would never be.
Coming home was worse than the hospital. The scent of Lena lingered in every fabric, every corner. Her half-finished knitting project lay on the sofa, a miniature pink bootie mocking him with its incompleteness. The nursery, painted a soft lavender, stood ready with its rocking chair, its mobile of fabric stars, its neatly folded stack of tiny clothes. Everything was perfect, ready for a life that would now unfold with a gaping, irreparable hole at its center.
Elias walked the halls like a somnambulist. Sleep was a luxury he couldn’t afford, peace a state of being he couldn’t grasp. The baby, swaddled in a bassinet beside his bed, was a constant, demanding reminder of his loss. Her cries were piercing, her needs immediate and overwhelming. Feed her. Change her. Rock her. All tasks he performed mechanically, his hands going through the motions while his mind replayed the last moments of Lena’s life, searching for a sign, a mistake, anything that could have changed the outcome.
He wasn’t a father, he was a caretaker. A shell of a man tending to a living, breathing testament to his shattered world. He looked at her, truly looked, at her tiny clenched fists, her perfect rosebud mouth, the wisps of dark hair. He was supposed to feel love, a boundless, protective surge. Instead, he felt terror. And a profound, suffocating resentment. Not for her, not truly, but for the impossible burden she represented. The burden of surviving Lena. The burden of a future he was meant to share, now left to him alone.
One evening, as the twilight bled through the window, painting the nursery in shades of bruised purple, the baby began to cry. Not the soft gurgle of a newborn, but a desperate, gasping wail that tore through the quiet house. Elias felt the familiar tightening in his chest, the wave of nausea. He hadn’t eaten in days. His head throbbed. He stood at the nursery door, unable to move.
“Please,” he whispered into the silence, his voice raw. “Please stop.”
But she didn’t. Her cries intensified, echoing the chaos in his own mind. He staggered to the bassinet, reaching for her with trembling hands. She was hungry again. Always hungry. Always needing. He saw her face, tiny and contorted with distress, and a chilling thought, clear and sharp, cut through his grief-fogged brain: I can’t do this.
He sank into the rocking chair, the baby still wailing in his arms, her cries blending with the silent screams inside him. He remembered the social worker at the hospital, her kind, sad eyes, the way she’d discreetly left a pamphlet on his bedside table. “Resources,” she’d called them. “If you need support.” He hadn’t looked at it then, dismissing it as something for other people. But now, the words floated to the surface: adoption services, temporary foster care, support for single parents…
He pictured a different life. A life where he could grieve properly, where he wasn’t responsible for another human being’s every breath. A life where he could just be – heartbroken, yes, but not utterly overwhelmed. He could give her a chance at a better life, a life with two parents, a life where she wouldn’t be raised by a ghost of a man. It wasn’t giving up, he told himself. It was a selfless act. It was what was best for her.
The thought, once unthinkable, now felt like a lifeline. He held the baby closer, but the gesture felt hollow, born of duty, not affection. He felt a profound sense of shame, but also a desperate longing for release. He looked around the nursery, at Lena’s meticulous choices, her dreams enshrined in every detail. She would have been furious. She would have been heartbroken. But she wasn’t here. And he was drowning.
He spent the next few days in a haze of contemplation. He browsed websites late at night, his laptop screen illuminating the dark circles under his eyes. He read stories of families who had given up children, of children who had been adopted into loving homes. He found agencies, phone numbers, contact forms. He even drafted an email, the words stark and clinical: My wife passed away during childbirth. I am unable to care for our daughter. His finger hovered over the ‘send’ button, the finality of it terrifying, yet strangely alluring.
He hadn’t named her yet. Every time he tried, Lena’s voice echoed in his head, full of the names they’d loved: Clara, Violet, Rose, Elara. He couldn’t bring himself to utter them. To name her was to acknowledge her, to embrace her as his daughter, Lena’s daughter. And that felt like accepting the permanence of Lena’s absence.
One afternoon, while the baby, miraculously, slept for a solid two hours, Elias found himself drawn to Lena’s side of the bed. Her scent was fainter now, but still there, a ghost of her presence. He ran his hand over her pillow, still dented from her head. Then, his fingers brushed against something hard beneath it. Her phone.
He hadn’t touched it. Hadn’t been able to. It felt like an intrusion, a desecration. But today, a different impulse tugged at him. A desperate, irrational need to feel her close, to hear her voice, even if it was just through her digital footprint. He picked it up. It was cold in his hand, a stark contrast to the warmth it always held when Lena used it.
He hesitated, then pressed the power button. The screen flickered to life, displaying a photo of Lena and him, beaming, arms wrapped around each other on their last vacation. She was laughing, her head thrown back, her eyes crinkling at the corners. A fresh wave of grief washed over him, threatening to engulf him entirely. But he pushed past it, determined.
He unlocked the screen, knowing her password by heart, a date important only to them. He scrolled through her photo gallery, a chronological journey through their life together, filled with vacations, silly selfies, pictures of the nursery taking shape, and finally, a series of triumphant bump photos, Lena glowing, radiating life. He paused at the last one, taken just days before she went into labor. She looked so happy, so full of hope.
Then, he navigated to her messaging app. He saw conversations with her mother, with his own sister, with various friends. He scrolled past them, feeling like a voyeur, until he saw it: a long, active chat thread with Maya, her best friend since childhood. Maya, who had been a bridesmaid at their wedding, who had thrown Lena’s baby shower, who had promised to be “Auntie Maya” to their little one.
He opened the chat, a knot forming in his stomach. He wasn’t sure what he expected to find. More evidence of her joy, perhaps, or even some hidden fears she hadn’t shared with him. He started from the bottom, weeks, then months back, reading the easy banter between two lifelong friends. Recipes, Netflix recommendations, complaints about pregnancy heartburn, excitement over ultrasound photos. He smiled faintly at some of the jokes, a ghost of his former self.
As he scrolled higher, closer to the present, the tone shifted. Lena’s messages became more focused on the baby, on their impending arrival.
Lena: “Just packed the hospital bag again. Felt like I forgot something important. What if I forget the baby?!” (laughing emoji)
Maya: “Girl, you’re going to be an amazing mom. Relax! Elias will be there to remind you of everything.”
Lena: “He’s already amazing. He’s been reading all the baby books, even the sleep training ones! I caught him practicing swaddling on a pillow the other day, bless his heart.”
Elias felt a pang in his chest. He had done that, hadn’t he? Practiced on a pillow, so proud of his technique.
Lena: “I’m so excited, Maya. And terrified. What if I’m not good enough? What if I mess it all up?”
Maya: “You won’t. You were born for this. And Elias is the most grounded, steady person I know. You guys are going to be a dream team.”
Elias’s breath hitched. A dream team. The words twisted in his gut. There was no team now.
He kept scrolling, his eyes blurring. He saw texts where Lena gushed about him, about his calm demeanor, his unwavering support. He remembered those moments, but through his own lens, his own insecurity. Now, he saw her absolute, unshakeable faith in him.
Then, a text from just days before she went into labor. The date stared at him, bold and merciless.
Lena: “Had a weird dream last night. It was just me and Elias, but he was holding the baby, and I was… not there. Like I was watching them from afar.”
Elias’s hands trembled. He held his breath, waiting for Maya’s reply.
Maya: “Pregnant brain, girl! Totally normal to have weird dreams. Maybe you’re just stressed about the birth, or worried about being tired when the baby comes?”
Lena: “Yeah, probably. But it felt so real. And in the dream, Elias was just so… strong. So capable. He looked tired, but he had this fierce protectiveness in his eyes. He was talking to the baby, telling her everything would be okay.”
And then, the text that shattered him, piece by agonizing piece.
Lena: “I know it sounds crazy, but if anything ever happened to me, if I wasn’t around to raise her, I know she would be okay with him. He’s got such a big heart, Maya. He’ll be the best dad. Even if he’s doing it alone, he’ll find a way. He always does. He’s my rock. And he’ll be hers, too.”
The phone slipped from Elias’s numb fingers, clattering onto the hardwood floor. His vision blurred, not just from tears, but from the sudden, overwhelming clarity that washed over him. Lena. His Lena. She hadn’t just loved him, she had believed in him. Not just in their life together, but in him, as an individual. She had seen a strength in him he hadn’t known existed, a strength he had completely forgotten in his grief.
She had worried. She had dreamt a nightmare that had become his reality. And even in that nightmare, her faith in him had been absolute. She had seen him, alone, holding their child, and believed he could do it. She had trusted him to be her rock, and their daughter’s.
A faint whimper came from the bassinet. The baby. He scrambled for the phone, then stood, his legs unsteady, and walked towards her. He looked down at the tiny, innocent face, still contorted in a brief, sleepy frown before her eyes fluttered open.
He had been looking for a way out. Lena had been preparing him for a way through.
He reached into the bassinet, his hand no longer trembling with terror, but with a different kind of tremor – a burgeoning, fragile hope. He picked her up, holding her close to his chest, feeling the warmth of her small body against his. For the first time, he felt a connection, a primal spark of what Lena had always known he possessed. Love.
He looked at her, truly looked. He saw Lena’s button nose, his own stubborn chin. She was a blend of them, a living bridge to the woman he had lost.
“Lena,” he whispered, his voice thick with emotion, “she believed in me, didn’t she? Even when I didn’t.”
The baby blinked, her eyes a deep, unfathomable blue. She reached up a tiny hand, grasping his finger. A fierce protectiveness surged through him, exactly as Lena had described it in her dream.
He walked over to the window, the soft evening light filtering in. He held her close, tracing the delicate curve of her cheek with his thumb.
“Elara,” he said, the name feeling perfect, a soft murmur of the “Lena” within it, meaning “bright, shining light.” “Your mom loved that name. She said you’d be a bright light.”
Elara. His daughter. Their daughter.
The journey ahead would be impossibly hard. He knew that. The grief would not vanish. The challenges of single parenthood would test him in ways he couldn’t yet imagine. But as he looked at his daughter, peaceful and trusting in his arms, he didn’t see an impossible burden anymore. He saw Lena’s legacy. He saw her unwavering faith. He saw a part of himself he had almost let wither and die.
He walked back to his bedside table, picked up the discarded pamphlet, and without a second thought, tossed it into the wastebasket. There would be no giving up. Only moving forward. For Lena. For Elara. And for the man he was slowly, painfully, remembering how to be. A father. Their rock.
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