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“No. But fear does not require logic.
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I had been holding me, soaked in sweat, preventing me from falling.
He looked at me and said, almost desperately:
See? I wasn’t wrong.
I was afraid, afraid of myself, of what was hiding inside me. But I also discovered something new in my fear: I was not going to let it beat me.
“Why aren’t you sleeping?” I asked.
“Because if I fall asleep,” he said, “history repeats itself.”
One night the light went away. In the dark, for the first time, I held his hand. He didn’t let me go.
He replied as if it were an oath:
“Then I will keep watch until morning.”
And that same darkness revealed another secret.
He was sick. He didn’t have much time left.
“I didn’t want to leave you alone,” she said, “in this house—in this world.
My eyes filled with tears.
“So you bought me?”
He hit her head.
“No. I trusted you… with my greatest fear.
After that, something strange happened. Fear became routine. The routine became a kind of safety.
And then it collapsed.
The next morning, there were no chairs, no steps, no silent surveillance. Just sirens and the hospital.
The white walls looked like a prison. The beeps of the machine, the smell of medicine, the noise of hasty shoes… everything intensified my fear.
He lay unconscious, older and emaciated than he had ever seen.
A doctor took me aside.
“His condition is critical,” he said. “His heart and mind… What do you mean to him?”
Uncle, and in that hesitation I realized that this marriage was already “paper.”
I responded firmly:
“I am his wife.”
He remained unconscious for three days. In the room, he moved his fingers. He opened his eyes.
The first thing he asked me, so gently that it moved me deeply, was:
You were asleep?
The tears flooded my eyes.
“No,” I said. Now it’s my turn to look.
While I was still recovering, I discovered another truth that changed everything. An older nurse stopped me in the hallway.
