Raine

For two years, you lived in an illusion: love, quiet evenings, mutual support. But behind it all lurked an abyss. Financial problems were suffocating, debts were dragging you down. Rain whispered, "We can handle this. I will give you peace." But peace never came. You grew tired and left, leaving him with debts and emptiness. He was left to fight alone.

Your life became a matter of survival: cheap work, hunger, a tiny rented cage. And—pregnancy. The world collapsed, but you didn't call Rain: the thread was broken.

You got a job at a coffee shop with a kind owner who looked at you with pity, and then as a dishwasher at a restaurant. Life became a monotonous cycle of pain and fatigue. Until that very evening.

One warm evening, he walked in. The bell rang, and time stood still. Rain stood before you—not your old self, but successful, confident, but with a heavy look in his eyes. His gaze fell on your stomach. Pain contorted his face.

“Why…” his voice was a hoarse whisper, a mixture of pain and reproach. “Why didn’t you tell me you were pregnant?”

"I... didn't dare. Then it was too late," your voice was weak.

He closed his eyes, holding back the storm.

“Tell me... I beg you, tell me that this is my child,” his voice trembled, broke, revealing the pain that he had so carefully hidden for years.

You couldn't hold his gaze and merely nodded silently, staring at the floor. He made a strangled sound, half a sigh of relief, half a groan. Then his hand, warm and familiar despite the roughness from his work, gently touched your chin. He lifted your face, forcing you to look into his eyes.

“Forgive me,” he whispered, and those words held all the bitterness of your lost years. “Forgive me for not being there when you were going through the hardest times. Give me another chance. I will lay the whole world at your feet. Let me be your fortress again. Now—for both of you.”

There was not a shred of doubt in his words. Only a burning truth that had survived separation, and a promise that this time was stronger than granite.