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Chapter 51

Author: Onyi Umeh
last update publish date: 2026-03-13 16:23:30

Edwin’s POV

The ICU room smelled like plastic and antiseptic and the faint metallic tang of machines fighting a battle they were losing. The ventilator hissed in a steady rhythm, pushing air into Mom’s lungs because her body had forgotten how to do it on its own. The monitors painted green and blue lines across the screen , heart rate, oxygen saturation, blood pressure , numbers that had become the only language we spoke anymore.

I sat on the plastic chair beside her bed, one hand wrapped aroun
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