Chapter 73: He did that

***ESTHER***

“I was in the rehabilitation centre when I heard my mom was hospitalized. They never told me it was cancer.I thought it was just some regular nausea when she was hospitalized. I was called when she was breathing her last breaths. I rushed to the hospital and stayed with her till her last breath. She was alive for three days after I visited her. She was kept in incubating ward and her body was connected with numerous pipes. Every time, I looked at her through that glass door, she would look at me with an expectations. Expectation that dad has visited her but every time, she looked at me, I had nothing to say to her. She waited three days for him but he never came for her,” he stops and doesn’t speak now.

I thought he stopped and would continue with telling me more but he doesn’t do that. He stays silent and I can hear his sobs now.

“Caden! Are you crying?” I ask. He doesn’t still speak at all. I try to turn around but he holds me tighter around my shoulders making me una