That day I was running around the city all day on business. My husband had gone to his brother’s construction site in the morning. In the evening, I came home and started cooking dinner. Suddenly I heard a call. My ex-husband’s name immediately appeared on the phone screen. We had lived together for three years and then separated. At one point, we both realized that we had nothing else in common except for our shared home. I didn’t have even the slightest desire to save our relationship.
Later I heard that Adam had found another woman six months later and they had a child. Later, mutual acquaintances said that their relationship with that woman did not work out either. She found another man and left the child with Adam. I can’t imagine how someone could give birth to a child and leave him.
By her ex’s voice, she immediately realized that something had happened to him. He could barely speak.
– “I’m sorry to bother you… Two weeks ago there was a fire in my house. Everything burned to the ground, and the only thing that saved me was that my daughter was at school at the time. The doctors do not give me a good prognosis. Listen to me, I beg you… I understand that this is absurd for you and I am guilty before you. But my ex-wife doesn’t care about me or my daughter. I have already called her. She wouldn’t even listen to me. She screamed that she didn’t want a child.
Maybe it’s for the best. My Alisa is a very sensitive and gentle girl, she doesn’t deserve such a mother. It’s good that she left us now, rather than she would have done it when my daughter would have gotten used to her.
I have no one else, you know that. Looking for someone is not an option, I don’t want my daughter to live in an orphanage.
My father passed away a year ago, three months after his death, my mother died… And now this… Unfortunately, I didn’t have time to leave and save our lives. I believed that everything would get better, the city would be liberated, and we would be happy again. If only I had known where the trouble would find you… Please, adopt my daughter. I don’t know if I will live. You are the only one I can trust with Alice. Please take care of her. The girl has no mother… I don’t know what will happen to me.”
I tried to explain to him that I was not ready to take such a serious step. What about my friends? Can’t they help? Nowadays, adopting a child takes a lot of time, because you need to get a lot of documents.
“Do everything you can, please,” he said.
I asked for time to think and consult with my husband. At ten o’clock, my husband returned, and I decided to talk to him. I told him everything as it was. If it wasn’t for this incident, I probably would have never known that he grew up in a foster home. He admitted that his parents had died in a car accident, and there was no one to take him, so he ended up in an orphanage, and from there in a foster home.
We both cried, and then the man said he was ready to become a father to this girl.
The next day after our conversation, Adam passed away…
We managed to take Alisa to our home. Every day the girl asks where her father is. I had to tell her everything. But I assured her that we would do everything to make her happy. I hope we can become real parents for her.
