“Mum, why did you let me die?”Evelyn stopped breathing.The voice came from behind the final door, soft and frightened, carrying the familiar tremble that had once made her rush across a room whenever her son called for her. It was Evan’s voice. Not an imitation that sounded almost right, not a whisper assembled from fragments of memory, but the voice she remembered from the days when he was alive, when he would call for her in the middle of the night because a nightmare had frightened him.Her fingers went numb inside Alexander’s hand.“No,” she whispered.The heartbeat sounded again.Behind the door, Evan spoke once more.“Mum?”Evelyn took a step forward before Alexander caught her gently around the waist.“Evelyn.”She struggled against his hold, not because she wanted to hurt him, but because every part of her was reaching for the voice behind that door.“That’s our son.”Alexander’s face was pale. His eyes were fixed on the door, and she could see the same impossible hope fight
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