After My Death, My Mother Finally Regrets
My existence had become their deepest regret, their hardest lesson.
Time seemed to stand still, leaving a final memory in that dark, damp basement, soaked in the scent of hatred and despair.
Justice, perhaps delayed, but never absent.
And where love and hate intertwined, endless sorrow and reflection lay buried…
When the very last beam of sunlight slipped through the narrow window, my mother's faint whisper sounded in the forgotten corner, “Maybe… we were all wrong.”
As the last shred of consciousness began to fade, my mother's weak murmur echoed from that dark, forgotten place, “Sarah… I’m sorry...”