Chapter 55

LUCAS

I sat on the bed, next to my mother as she was soundly sleeping. It has been five years now since I got married to Anne.

Five years of crushed hopes and expectations, tragedies included. I thought by now I would be a father of three or atleast two. But life had played me a fast one.

Anne never gave birth. She did take in. Multiples times at that. But the outcome was just series of miscarriages. Miscarriages upon miscarriages. She could never birth a child. It was either a still birth or a miscarriage.

I do not even know what is going on in my life anymore. A year after Arianna left, mother got a stroke. The doctor said she was grieving her loss. I would not blame her. She could not cope with Arianna leaving and the fact that all her grandkids kept on withering away was just too much for her to bear.

The stroke had gotten mother with amnesia. Sometimes she halluncinated, she spoke like though Arianna was with her and it broke my heart seeing my mother slowly losing her mind.