Book 4: Twenty four

By evening, everyone filled the hospital ward again. Sasha was so delighted to see her kids again, while Sapphire had run to her on seeing her, Chris had just stood by the corner and watched them. She had reached out for him and he had went to her, but he wasn’t as enthusiastic as Sapphire. The family stayed and laughed and later in the night, everyone started leaving. Angelica and Nicholas took the children and they said goodnight while the rest all promised to come back in the morning.

Michael sat beside her like he had been doing the whole day and held her hand again, since there were just both of them; Sasha turned her face from him once more. Seconds ticked by and he finally said, “you are angry with me aren’t you?”

She said nothing.

“I can understand,” he sighed and licked his lips, “I don’t know where to begin but I know one thing, I wronged you. I wronged you badly and I know simply asking for forgiveness isn’t going to make you forget the pain and hurt it brought you but I’m