Just the thought made his heart heavy, his body trembling in unimaginable pain.
The contrast of the happy times and his current horrible state made the pain even more pronounced and unbearable.
I want to die… I want to die…
When the disaster happened, he was on a long-awaited vacation with his wife and young son—they conceived very late in life—in another country.
They had been looking forward to it and he had always wanted to make it up to them due to his frequent absences back when he was a soldier.
His wife had always been patient with him, and frankly other than providing her basic needs, he felt like he failed as a husband for neglecting her so much.
He was always on missions and that was one of the reasons why they had a child so late, already in her 40s.
His beautiful Amelia wanted to have children long ago. In the few times he was with her, he saw how her sights would always follow children with warm, doting eyes.
