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Adjusting Zara Helena in the chair, he sat there looking at the light over the operating room. During the 2 hours, he asked her several times to come back to the ward, but she did not move.

Her heart fluttered as she saw nurses coming in and out carrying bags of blood, but none gave them a clear answer. He was emotionally numb from the whole revelation, even though it was his mother who had destroyed his happy marriage. Seeing her on her deathbed, it was not his place to dwell on her betrayal.

"I am sorry, Mr. Ali, we did our best. It is up to your mother now," the doctor said as he emerged from the operation, as Mason and Zara Helena ran towards him.

"What do you mean?" Mason tensed, seeing the doctor without hope.

They were in the doctor's room when he finally said, “When she was brought here, she lost a fair amount of blood and the blow caused a severe head injury. Our brain needs a constant supply of oxygen through the blood and the blood loss from this injury has impacted th