MYLES
What more do you have to lose before you realise it isn't meant to be...
Myles... your mum is gone... her heart failed and...
'...You should have left me there, why do you have to bring me out...'
'I'm sorry.'
'...What are you doing...'
'Retribution.'
I'm at the center of her ward, shoulders slumped, staring at the empty hospital bed as if she might still be here, and all I needed to do was just wait and soon I'll be hearing her voice...
Carino, are you okay, Carino...
But... she's gone.
I knew it before the mayor said it. The way he had clenched at the wheel, his voice when he cursed, hollow and weak, with every word he dropped, it lost meaning.
I should have sensed it sooner though, when Diego dropped all of those cryptic words before he pulled the trigger on his own self. It was all because of this.
Retribution.
"Sir," the nurse beside me breaks the silence, the pity in her eyes looking at me frozen on the floor, "You need to get treated."
I looked back at the bed, feeling m
