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I laugh ‘Yes, how did that happen anyway?’

He shakes his head ‘I don’t know I can look atsee you spill blood It just one’

‘Oh, Noah’

He co I’m so proud of you I just can’t believe I missed it all’

‘Never mind, next time—’

He frowns ‘Next tiain?’ he asks incredulously

‘Of course Sergei needs brothers and sisters I don’t want him to be an only child like me’

‘No,’ he says decisively ‘I think you suffered enough I don’t think ill have any ood home’

‘No way We’re having at least four kids, maybe five, and if you e can adopt a couple too, but the next tio into labor you can stay close to my head’

‘We’ll have to talk about this,’ he says darkly

There is a knock on the door and Baba co a covered bowl of food She frowns ‘Why is that baby not swaddled?’ she de out and buying clothes and toys for the child before it is born, now you don’t want to swaddle the baby?’ she tuts with displeasure

I giggle ‘Mama didn’t swaddle me and I turned out okay, didn’t I?’

‘That re with joy

‘Where’s Mama anyway?’ I ask

‘She’s co She met the doctor and decided to have a ith him’

At that moment my mother comes into the room

‘Oh darling, well done’ She rushes to Noah’s side and peers at the baby

‘Oh, oodness me He’s so beautiful’

‘Yes, he is the most beautiful boy in the whole world’

Epilogue

Noah Abramovich