CHAPTER 69

　　THERE IS NO TIME

　　TIARA

　　“What the hell do you think you’re doing? How dare you run people’s lives like that? Especially your daughter’s. You son of a bitch!” my mother shouted and lunged at my father’s collar, rocking him.

　　There was so much noise that I had to step in between them.

　　“Stop it! We’re in a hospital! Respect that!” I told them, trying to get my mother off my father. But she was holding on to him so tight that I thought she was going to kill him.

　　“I don’t fucking care! This man who calls himself your father just ruined your life. And he doesn’t give a fuck about it!” she shouted even more loudly. This time, she pushed him until he hit the wall behind him. And he wasn’t doing anything. He must have been wracked with guilt.

　　“Hey, it wasn’t just my choice. I wanted you to have a better life, but I made unwise business deals,” my father defended himself against my mother’s furious verbal attacks.

　　“Unwise business deals? You sold out your daughter, you bastard! W