Chapter 4

I walked toward Yvonne slowly. "Jeremy is dead. My son is dead."

I was crying and laughing at the same time, like I was possessed. "You'll pay for this with your life!"

I lunged at Yvonne. However, just as I was about to reach her, I felt a sharp pain on the back of my head.

I collapsed to the ground.

Francis ran over to Yvonne with a baseball bat in his hands. "Yvonne, are you okay?"

She patted herself on the chest, visibly shaken, and shook her head. Then, she stepped on my face. "How dare you try and touch me, you bitch? I'll have to teach you a lesson so you know I'm not someone you should mess with!"

My head hurt. My consciousness was beginning to fade.

Right before I lost consciousness, I heard Francis ask, "Yvonne, are you sure it's fine that the kid died?"

Yvonne scoffed. "This is the emergency room of a hospital. People die here every day. Besides, it was already too late by the time the kid was brought in. He didn't even make it into the emergency room…"

Their laught