30/11/2025
The mafia bossās baby wouldnāt stop crying on the planeāuntil a single mother did the unthinkable
The Cry in the Clouds
The babyās scream cut through the first-class cabin like a blade.
It wasnāt a normal infant cry.
It was sharp, desperate, unrelenting ā the kind that yanked ancient instincts out of anyone who had ever held a child.
Passengers shifted, hissed, groaned.
But none dared complain.
Not when they saw him.
Dominic Romano ā the most feared man on the Eastern seaboard ā sat rigid in seat 1A, trembling slightly as he held his wailing two-month-old son. The immaculate black suit he wore didnāt soften the hard lines of a man who had seen war, betrayal, and death. But right now?
He looked terrified.
The babyās fists punched weakly at his fatherās chest, red-faced and furious, tiny lungs working overtime. Dominicās jaw flexed. He rocked the child awkwardly, as if the motion itself was foreign.
āSir,ā one of his bodyguards murmured from the aisle, āwe can request an early descent ifāā
āNo.ā Dominic didnāt raise his voice, but steel sliced through every syllable.
āWe land on schedule.ā
But the baby didnāt care about schedules, or mafias, or reputations.
He only cared about one thing:
the mother he would never know.
Two months.
Thatās how long it had been since Isabella died bringing him into the world.
And two months since Dominic, the ruthless Don of the Romano family, had realized the one thing he could not control was grief.
Or a crying infant.
Sarah Hears Him
Three rows back, Sarah Collins closed her eyes.
Her chest tightened. Her breath caught.
Her body betrayed her before her mind could stop it ā an ache, a rush of heat, the painful tightening she knew too well.
No. Not here. Not again.
But her body remembered holding her own daughter.
Her daughter who would never cry again.
Six months had passed since baby Lily slipped away in her sleep.
Six months since Sarah buried her heart in a tiny white coffin.
She had been a pediatric nurse ā one of the best in the NICU.
But after losing Lily, she couldnāt walk past another newborn without breaking.
Sheād been trying to heal. Sheād even attended a grief-to-growth conference in New York. Now she was simply trying to get home.
But that babyās scream pierced her like a ghostās hand.
When the flight attendant paused beside her, Sarah startled.
āMiss? Are you alright?ā
Sarah swallowed hard.
āThat babyā¦ā she whispered.
āHeās hurting. And IāIām a pediatric nurse. I might be able to help.ā
The attendant hesitated.
āThe father⦠isnāt exactly approachable.ā
āI can try,ā Sarah murmured.
Before she could lose her nerve, she unbuckled and stepped into the aisle.
Each step made her heart pound harder.
Donāt do this. You canāt handle this.
But then she saw him.
The Don and the Nurse
Dominic Romano looked like a fallen angel sculpted out of midnight ā tall, broad-shouldered, deadly calm on the surface.
But his eyesā¦
They were wild.
Not murderous ā
but afraid.
Afraid he was failing his son.
Sarah softened instantly.
The baby ā small, flushed, miserable ā reminded her so painfully of Lily that her knees shook.
The flight attendant spoke quickly:
āSir? This passenger is a pediatric nurse. She wondered if she mightāā
Dominicās head snapped toward Sarah. His gaze hit her like a physical force.
āA nurse,ā he repeated lowly.
āAnd what exactly do you think you can do that I haven't already tried?ā check the first comment š