CHAPTER 500. TO BELIEVE AGAIN. What do we do now?

"Thanks, we'll stop by later this morning," Milo said before hanging up the phone.

Anja felt her heart skip a beat when she saw the concerned expression on his face.

"Who was that?" she asked.

"It was the clinic," he replied. "The test results are ready. We need to go pick them up."

She didn’t say anything, but this was a moment she had been waiting for, one that could either make or break her life. She got up silently and began to get ready. That morning, she cared for Niko with her usual tenderness, but every time she looked at him, she searched for any feature that might make her more certain he was hers.

Milo checked the time.

"We need to go now, are you ready?" he asked.

Anja nodded even though she didn’t feel ready at all. Her heart was racing, as if there was a massive hourglass slowly running out of sand.

The three of them got into the car and dropped Niko off at kindergarten, just like every morning. Then, they continued on th