Chapter 119

The moment Bethany received the call, she froze. Jane noticed at once. "Mrs. Brennan, what's wrong?" Bethany snapped back to her senses, grabbed her car keys, and sprinted toward the garage. "Take good care of Evan. I won't be coming back today." Her hands trembled on the steering wheel as streetlights streamed toward her in hazy rings, like the kaleidoscope Sarah used to have when she was a child. When Otis died, she had felt as though she had died with him. It was Sarah who had pulled her back from the abyss. They were the two pillars of her life. After the age of five, all the warmth Bethany had left came from her grandparents. Whenever she saw others cherished by their parents, she told herself that she still had her grandparents. Her grandfather was gone. If her grandmother were to leave her too… The traffic light turned green. Bethany wiped away her tears and drove straight for the hospital. She ran into the emergency room and asked, "Doctor, how is my grandma?" "You'r