Chapter 19

ALICE'S POV

When I woke up in the morning, he was gone. I was relieved or I would have felt more suffocated than I already did.

Forcing myself, I set out for the hospital. I had to check up on my father to see how he was doing. And then there was my mother...

She must be waiting for me with insults after insults piled up in her mind that she would throw at me, the moment I was going to face her.

Sometimes, I wanted to scream at her that she had to no right of ever insulting me. She did not own the right to shame me when she was no better herself but something stopped me every time.

It was Responsibility. Responsibility of being a daughter to not break her mother's heart. I really did not want to hurt her because in the end Claudia Anderson was my mother. Nothing could change that fact.

It was not hard to find my father's room when I asked about him on the reception desk. Finally, he had a room.