Chapter 79

Elena let her head rest on the wall behind her. The activities of the nurses buzzed around her.

Once in a while, a stretcher would be rolled past Elena, flanked by crying family members, and desperate nurses.

There was the anguished scream from the patients. A certain woman was fervently calling for death to take her away from this world of agony. Her nurse had long given up on her, and her family members weren't coming anymore, she said.

A man coughed so hard Elena thought he was going to cough his intestines through his mouth.

Death hovered everywhere around her. She smelt it, saw it, and heard it. And here, in the same ward, was her husband. Lying in a semi comatose with a bloody bandage around his head. How worse could life get?

She thought about when she met Liam. When her father had forced her on him, and made her try to steal a document. Then he had presented her as repayment. And there followed the days when she had a fervent fear and hatred for Liam. When he overworked her s