Glory Gone
“Jaime, you knew long ago that your mother’s surgery had a very low chance of success. You kept lying to yourself. Doctors aren’t all‑powerful. They can’t bring the dead back to life. You spent ten years torturing my mother and me, blaming everything on us. Now my mother is dead, and I won’t live much longer. Can’t I repay what we owe you with two lives?”
Jaime’s eyes shifted away. She could not look at my mother’s portrait. She stepped back several times and ran out of the house. Her retreat looked like panic.
I watched her leave and let out a slow breath. My hands looked thin and weak.
Without medicine or treatment, I truly did not have much time left.
After her excuses were exposed, she a