They did not. The paramedics ran past with Julius. Jason followed them like a shadow.
The live feed showed the operating room in frozen detail. The monitor’s beeps slowed, then paused. The screen went empty.
My mother’s heart stopped. I heard a sound then the flatline. It felt like a punch to the ribs. My legs gave out.
I sank to the floor and could only stare at the lifeless body of my mother on the live feed and the unconscious bruised battered body of my sister before me.
My face went numb. It felt like someone rewired me to nothing. I could not move. I could not breathe. The world had narrowed to one point: my dead mother and my bloody sister.
My phone buzzed. A simple message lit the screen. It was the lawyer. Divorce papers sent. Found a loophole.
Amber’s Pov
It had been three days since my mother died. Three days since I watched her heart stop on that screen.
I hadn’t left the hospital since then. I couldn’t. Not while Jane lay motionless, her face swollen, tubes running from her nose, machines keeping her alive.