44- Before it is too late

The last thing Helena remembered was that she was lying on the table in the operating room surrounded by doctors and with a small curtain under her breasts. She couldn't feel anything from her waist down as the doctors worked on the assisted delivery.

The only thing she could do was hold back tears of emotion and fear while she waited for her son to cry. When the baby finally cried she cried too, watching as they picked up the child and held him to her chest for a few minutes before taking him under control.

"Hello little one..." she exclaimed softly, kissing her little head with a speck of black hair.

At first she was terrified that her son had any resemblance to her ex, but seeing him so tiny and innocent resting on her chest she thought that he couldn't be more perfect, that she didn't want him to be hers. Another way.

After a while she had finally been taken to the room to recover from the operation. At that same moment Nick arrived with a wide smile on his face, although his eyes were red, as if he had been crying.

“I guess I'm not the only one shocked,” she thought weakly.

"Hello..." the young man exclaimed softly.

"Hello," the brunette said tiredly.

Nick sat in the chair next to her bed, taking the young woman's hand and stroking it with her thumb. There was a knock on the door and the boy tensed, but he relaxed again when he saw that she was the nurse with the small crib.

"Hello mommy, I bring you her son," she said sweetly, placing him next to Helena.

The nurse left and Nick looked curiously from his seat at the boy.

"Go ahead, you can carry it," he exclaimed, smiling.

"I'm afraid of doing something wrong," she admitted.

Helena laughed amused, although her stitches hurt.

-I trust you.

Those three words were like daggers in the young man's heart. He bit his lower lip hard and got up, walking around the bed until he reached the small crib where her nephew was sleeping peacefully.

"He's so small," he whispered, hypnotized. With great fear, she picked him up, being as careful as possible and brought him to her chest, rocking slowly from one side to the other. "What's his name?" he asked without stopping to look at the sleeping baby who seemed to be very comfortable in her arms. your uncle.

Helena watched the scene in wonder and she couldn't help but take her cell phone and take a photo of her without her brother-in-law noticing.

"I... I still don't know," she exclaimed embarrassed.

She felt stupid for not having chosen a name for her son during the 9 months of pregnancy. But after all she had still had the illusion of choosing him together with Ivan.

-I still have to think about it carefully-

-How about my name?- The young man joked.

-You're a fool- he laughed and frowned at the points- By the way... Where is my brother?

Nick tensed for a moment and couldn't do anything but look at the helpless baby who wasn't to blame for anything.

-He-He's at the reception completing some things about the hospitalization- he responded, slipping with the words.

Helena seemed to believe it, leaning back into her fluffy pillows without suspicion.

-Know…. You will be a great father someday, a few minutes ago you were panicking, and look at you now! "You're quite an expert," she exclaimed, smiling.

But Nick didn't smile back, the guilt was so heavy on his heart that he didn't deserve any praise.

-I don't think so Helena...

-What are you saying? You are the kindest and most amazing person I have ever met.

"It must be the anesthesia that makes you say those things..." she exclaimed, looking away.

"Don't be silly, they didn't completely anesthetize me," she smiled. "It's true Nick, seriously, thank you for being here with me." Now I feel sorry for having distrusted you, I was wrong, I'm sorry- She exclaimed, lowering her gaze.

Nick felt the burning in his eyes, he didn't deserve those words.

-You know you can come with us, right? You can stay as long as you want, you don't have to keep running away. Us…. We can be your family. Nick, hey, are you okay? What's happening?

Nick had started crying his eyes out without even realizing it. He walked on shaky legs to his sister-in-law and approached his son while still crying.

-What's happening? Did I say something wrong? -She asked worriedly while she sheltered her child in her arms.

"I-I'm sorry, Helena..." she said with a broken voice.

-Why are you apologizing Nick? You did not do anything wrong.

"Yes I did!" She screamed with a red and wet face.

Her scream woke up the child who began to cry uncontrollably.

Helena was overwhelmed, rocking her child in her arms and not understanding what was happening with her brother-in-law.

"I don't understand... What did you do?" She asked scared.

Nick took his phone with his trembling hands, seeing the message his men had sent him, warning that they were going to break in at any moment.

"No... no no" he exclaimed nervously.

-That? What's happening? - The young woman exclaimed, trying to sit up without success, still sore from the surgery.

-We have to leave before they get there- Nick looked around, searching the white walls of the room for a plan to escape.

-They? "Who are they?" She asked even more terrified, hugging her child.

Just then a doctor entered the room.

"Good evening, time for the review," she said kindly.

But the young man saw in that poor guy the opportunity to escape. Without wasting time he pounced on the man, making his sister-in-law scream in terror, as she watched helplessly from the bed as Nick left the poor doctor unconscious in two seconds.

Helena trembled in fear on the bed, watching silently as she took off her work uniform and quickly put it on.

"We have to go now," she exclaimed, taking the wheelchair from the corner of the room and bringing it closer to the bed.

Helena shook her head frantically and moved as far away from her brother-in-law as she could.

-Helena please! "They are going to come in at any moment and take the child!" He exclaimed desperately.

Helena was already crying and denying madly.

-No! Not my child! -She sobbed hard.

Nick looked at the door in terror, there was no time to waste, if they came in he wouldn't be able to fight all of them, they would knock him out in seconds and he would never forgive himself for taking the baby. It was his time to fix things.

As best he could, he approached her sister-in-law and took her in her arms, placing her in the wheelchair, although Helena fought to avoid it. He ran to the crib and grabbed the sheet that was there covering the baby who was in her mother's arms. Finally, he gave the young woman a mask.

-I know you're scared, I'm not going to lie to you, I am too. But if we stay here they will come for him.

Helena hugged the bundle under the sheets tighter and looked at her brother-in-law with teary eyes.

She had no choice, Erik was not going to come to her rescue, a feeling she had told her that he was already out of the game.

She nodded her head, but she didn't feel able to speak.

Nick sighed shakily and stepped behind the wheelchair and pushed it out of the room, praying that it wasn't too late to flee from his father's men coming after them.