YOU NEED TO LEAVE!

“I'm so sorry sir,” he said quietly, his voice tinged with sorrow. “We couldn't save her. She… she passed away a few moments ago, she was poisoned…”.

The words hung in the air, heavy, and suffocating.

Antonio stood frozen, his mind struggling to process the devastating truth. The room seemed to tilt, the walls closing in around him.

The doctor closed his eyes expecting a hit, something, anything, but there was no single sound heard.

He slowly opened his eyes to see Antonio walking towards his grandma's bed.

The doctors and nurses immediately exit the bedside like a water splash

“Poison?”

He asked…

“Yes…yes sir”.

Why will anyone poison Grandma Elizabeth, and what could they aim to achieve with it?

“No…”

Antonio chuckled slowly.

His grandmother, the one person who could calm his storms, who had been his anchor, was gone.

“You are joking”.

He laughed out loudly.

The nurses lowered their heads, crying silently.

Suddenly, a loud guttural cry of anguish tore from his throat, a raw, primal