What amount are we talking about?
“We don’t know exactly,” Mara replied.
Jacob knew we had debts.
– Yes.
“He knew I had the house guarantee.
– He Knew.
Then why didn’t he tell me?
Mara pulled air in the chest.
“Because he didn’t want to give you hope before there was anything for sure.
I burst:
I sold my jewelry!
Mara was silent.
“I spent entire nights calculating how I would pay the installments! I wondered if I had to sell the house after the baby was born!
– I know.
– No, you don’t!
I got up so fast that the chair hit the wall.
He was my husband!
Mara started crying.
– I know.
And then I stopped.
Because that woman didn’t do anything to me.
And she had lost Jacob.
He just found him a few months before he lost him.
I sat down again.
I am so sorry.
Mara shakes her head.
You don’t have to apologize.
I continued the letter.
The last part was for the kids.
“Tell Sofia that my father didn’t leave because he wanted to.”
I put my hand to my mouth.
Sofia was our four-year-old girl.
“And if the baby is a boy, tell him I wish I had taught him to ride a bike. If it’s a girl, tell her I’d have learned for her to braid the hair, even if I probably would have been awful at that.’
I started laughing through tears.
That’s exactly how Jacob was.
Then I got to the last sentence.
“And, Anna, if Mara stretches out your hand, please do not see her as the woman I have hidden from you. See it as the family I found too late.”
I couldn’t continue.
In the following weeks, no miracle check appeared.
Nobody told me I had become a millionaire.
