chapter 20

N / A: I would like to know from the new readers and from some if the previous edited chapters are better, since I used a page to correct spelling errors, but I could not review due to lack of time, it took so long to edit that I used the time that I use to write the chapters and I no longer wrote a chapter, this is a saved chapter, I was lucky.

"I had happy and sad moments with my husband, they were really the best moments of my life, we even had a daughter, her name was Jill Valentine, a beautiful baby girl who brought more happiness to our family, but the happiness ended there, Dick always went out late at night, I didn't really know what he did or what he did for a living, I only knew that he was sometimes hurt, but he always gave me what I asked for, I wasn't very demanding, I really only wanted to have a happy family, so the only thing I wanted from him was to be a good father and at least bring some money to the house to support our daughter".

"" Have you never suspected and faced your husband?"

"No...I had my suspicions about him, but love makes a person blind, several years went by and our little daughter grew up, I always noticed her trying to open locks in our rooms, at first I thought she was playing because she loved to watch action movies, where there were spies and thieves, so I left her, but everything got worse when dick arrived alarmed and took his things and asked us to leave."

I really wanted to go with him, but I asked him for an explanation before doing so, which he did not give me, until I insisted more and he told me, "he was a thief, he was very wanted in several countries", I did not want to live escaping from a place like he did, I was afraid that something bad would happen to us, if we followed him, but.

The conversation dragged on and dick was getting more and more nervous, he really wanted to leave, he even promised not to steal again if I followed him, but fear got the better of me and I didn't follow him, I made the worst mistake of my life, not because I didn't follow him, but because he took my little daughter, she was too attached to her father, I couldn't do anything when she wanted to leave with him, I could only ask her to be happy, while I stayed alone in my house.

I was alone for 10 years without any contact with my daughter until I recently found out that she was just like her father. He had promised me that he would stop stealing for his family, but in the end he let our daughter be just like him. If I had known that, I would have fought"

Ethan, who listened to everything, felt sad. He really couldn't imagine what it felt like to have a mother, but there was a girl who was now a teenager who pushed her mother aside, just to have fun with her father.

Tears ran down Aiko's cheeks, it hurt to remember those moments, but she felt free at the same time. It really helped her to tell someone her sorrows, but that did not take away the pain in her chest for not being able to see her daughter, who did not even know where she was, grow up.

"I hope she finds you well daughter."

Ethan, seeing the lady so hurt, could do nothing but hug her, comfort the woman, and although he had just met, she was a mother who was suffering, a mother he always wanted to have, but in the end could not because of life's misfortunes.

As the minutes ticked by, with aiko's sobs, all her sadness, sorrows, regrets poured out of the lady's heart loudly as she hugged Ethan.

"" Sister Sherry, why is miss Aiko crying" said the children with little tears in their eyes. Hearing the sobs of such a strong woman, who was like a grandmother to all the children, was really getting to them.

"Calm down, she's fine, " reassured Sherry to the children, she was very happy to see the woman she considered a mother come out of her cocoon of suffering.

Sherry knew about Aiko's pain, after all she could see the eyes of sadness and regret in Miss Aiko.

How many times she wanted to say, I'm here for you, but Sherry knew very well she was not the one to address Aiko's problems, a girl who suffered constantly and did not dare to tell and unburden years after years of sadness, she was not the right person to comfort someone.

It was what Sherry ignored, the sadness Aiko was going through, it was cruel of him, perhaps cowardice, but he could do nothing, even if he saw her taking anti-depressants or going with a painful look along with traces of loneliness in her eyes.

But Sherry's salvation against his cowardice was no one else but Ethan. He was only in that orphanage for two days, but he changed many things, he diminished the sad atmosphere of the orphanage with his mere presence.

After all, every child in an orphanage will always be full of problems, not being able to see your parents anymore, knowing that the only trace of happiness is the love you can get from the orphanage caretakers, who will replace your parents until someone adopts you.

But since Sherry came to the orphanage, I have noticed that atmosphere of sadness, after all she was part of it.

Children want to play and be loved, but what caregiver can fulfill the role of the one who gives them that when he/she does nothing but think about the problems around them, putting on a false face, which the children may identify and make them feel more uncomfortable.

But it wasn't Ethan, Sherry thanked Ethan for that. In those two days that he was with everyone at the orphanage, he showed them a face that none of those who stopped with the children showed, a true smile and a way of being, not hidden behind a mask of sadness.

Sherry knew that Ethan, like all people, had problems, but he had something that most people didn't have, the ability to put his problems aside and enjoy the moment, without his problems clouding or interrupting his life.

That was one of the positive characteristics that Sherry saw in Ethan. Another was the one that Sherry was now hearing and was a participant in herself, Ethan was someone who lowered all of someone's defenses, made you feel so comfortable that you could think of him as a brother, son or any family.

That's why she was almost there for opening her feelings to Ethan, just to release all her sorrows in Ethan's arms, but Rome wasn't built in a day and maybe not today, maybe tomorrow or soon, but she hoped that soon would come fast and take away all the fear.

After all, Sherry wanted to have someone who would always be with her, Ethan would eventually leave her side, that was the barrier that kept Sherry from telling Ethan everything she had in her heart.

"It will be all right, " comforted Ethan to Aiko, not knowing how he was changing everything around him with his mere presence and how he was further changing the thoughts of several people about his person.

N/A: Here we end with one of the stories of one of the relevant characters in the story, later on, the truth at first I thought this was too rushed, a lady telling all her problems to a person who is practically almost unknown, but then I saw it from a more psychological point of view and it really was not so rushed, after all most women are very sociable by nature, that's the point, the thing is to give her an incentive to tell her suffering and the incentive was to feel trust for Ethan, because as it was told Sherry could have played Ethan's role, in solving the problem of Aiko telling all her feelings, but she already said why she didn't do it, now in the two days that she spent in the orphanage, aiko perhaps did not see what Ethan did on the first day, but for an older woman who at the moment sees her children who always had an air of sadness, begin to act more lively and knows who is the one who caused that, because the person who caused that change becomes someone very reliable and of high esteem for the lady, then add that she sees for herself on day two, a 15 year old boy who behaves like a 10 to 12 year old boy while playing like them, but who is mature and sensible, because really in the eyes of someone that person becomes someone with whom you can have a quiet chat without the discomfort of being a stranger to whom you don't want to tell anything, for obvious reasons.