Chapter 4

My heart twisted as I watched my adoptive mother, hooked up to tubes and wires, an oxygen tube in her nose, barely clinging to life.

I couldn't hold it in anymore. My hands shook as I pressed them to my mouth, tears streaming down my cheeks.

My adoptive mother tried so hard to lift her hand, but she just didn't have the strength.

"Amari... don't cry..." she whispered, her voice barely above a breath.

She murmured, "It's my fault... I shouldn't have forced you and Camren together.

"I never thought... after all these years of raising him... he'd turn out…