The result confirmed paternity.
He started seeing Max gradually.
A few hours first.
Then for days.
He didn’t miss a celebration.
No consultation.
No birthday.
With his mother he broke off the bond for almost a year.
When Mariana asked to see her grandson, Alexander told her one thing:
– I don’t decide that. Elena decides. You took away his right to choose once. It won’t happen again.
Victoria has disappeared from his life.
And Elena?
Elena didn’t come back right away.
Alexander didn’t even ask him.
He had to learn to trust him again.
A year and a half later, the three returned on the same cruise route.
This time, Alexander was not a hotel owner.
Elena was not an employee of the ship.
And Max no longer looked at a stranger wondering if he was his father.
They were sitting on the upper deck, looking at the water.
Max is running ahead.
– Dad! – Mother! Come! Come!
Alexander looks at Elena.
She was wearing the silver medallion again.
“I thought it was Max’s,” he said.
He gave it back to me.
Why?
Elena smiled.
He said the message on his back was for me.
Alexander looked at the water.
“Where the water is finished, I will still find my way to you.”
When he wrote those words years ago, he thought they were just a beautiful statement.
He didn’t know one day they were going to become the truth of all their story.
They were lost their way to each other.
But their son had brought them back.
Not to the life they had.
It’s the chance to build a new one.
