CHAPTER 103

OLIVIA

I sat by Nick’s side until he was knocked out by the sedative the doctor gave him. I waited until he was taken back to the room he was in before he apparently discharged himself then left the hospital like I planned to. By then it was already eleven in the morning, and I had a lot to get done.

I did my shopping, getting new phones for all of us, clothes, a laptop then went to meet with a real estate agent about a house. She showed me pictures of a few but there was one that caught my eye. The others were not what I was looking for. They were condos and I didn’t want that, I wanted a house.

I even looked for a school for Samuel and made appointments to go and check them out. I then rushed to back to the hospital after calling Lupita to meet me there. I wanted to take them to the airport after picking up Grandma Susan. Alas, they didn’t want to go, and this is what I got.

“Are you crazy, when have you ever heard family abandoning each other when times are tough? If you want to go