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And then nored the pleas of ain

And all the while, ht to sob

No fucking right

My phone rang again

Shit

I snatched it out ofwho it was "Hello," I snapped

A pause And then, "Sophia, are you okay?"

Griff

A sense of calm washed over me at his voice

"No, not really," I answered hi the nausea away

"Where are you?"

"At the hospital" My thoughts scrambled to make sense I couldn’t make sense

"Which hospital, sweetheart?"

"The Royal Brisbane"

"Which ward?"

"I can’t remember The one for heart attacks"

Don’t make me answer any more questions

I can’t do it

"I’ll be there soon"

And then he hung up, and I doubled over in pain

Emotional pain hurt so much more than physical pain soh e ht now"

I spun around and glared at her "You can’t ht Not now Not ever I spent the last twenty years waiting for you to coht that if my own mother didn’t want me, how could anyone else want lared at her harder "It fucks the fucked up I’ve moved on and so should you"