Confrontation

Bastien, Bastien, Bastien. Why did everything seem to revolve around him? First, it was him in my dream and now he was the last person to see my mom before she was attacked. There was no way that was just a coincidence.

I remembered back when I first met him in the hospital, my mom was asking him about a baby he came looking for about twenty-one years ago and he was quick to hush her up. Now he was visiting her just shortly before she was attacked?

"You have got to be kidding me," Javier blurted out.

"Calm down, I am sure there is a perfectly good reason for this, we just need him to clarify," Ivan said to his brother.

"Clarify what? Are you forgetting it is Bastien we are talking about? This is just going to be another one of his secrets he never talks about," Javier fired back.

The sudden silence from the ICU ward caused all of us to fall silent. I noticed with dismay that the EKG machine was no longer beeping, which was not good.

To make matters worse, the glass door slid open and