One moment, she thought he deserved it; the next, her head throbbed with a mix of emotions and pain.

By the tshe reached the hospital, she just happened to see the doctor leaving Felix's room.

Carol hesitated at the door, wrestling with her feelings, before she finally pushed it open slowly.

Felix was lying in the hospital bed, an IV needle sticking out of the back of his hand.

Soon, a nurse cin to give her sinstructions.

"The fever hasn't broken yet. When this bag is empty, ring the bell next to you," the nurse said, glancing at her with a hint of curiosity. "Are you family?" "Ah, yes, I am." "You should go complete the paperwork while the medication drips. It's going to be a while." After Carol finished with the paperwork and returned, she took a seat by the bed.

In her memory, this might have been the first tshe sat by his bed like this.

She felt restless, her gaze fixed on Felix's face, unable to extinguish the burning anger inside her.

had changed his medication several times, that

then she noticed her sleeve caught in his

away, but when

seemed strangely persistent, not completely subsiding. Carol even thought it might fry his

eyes open, he was staring

she attempted to yank her sleeve

I know I messed up." Her curiosity piqued, wondering if

no longer in a

to you. I should've realized sooner how good you are to me, how you're the best thing for me." A bittersweet feeling swelled in

that good? Not necessarily. Initially, it was just

initial aloofness was infuriating, always ignoring calls, never replying to texts, as if dangling her on

his secrecy about medication. No matter how much tpassed, it remained a knot in her

always a man of few words,

mistakes, his apologies, how he deserved to die, but

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