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Growing increasingly perturbed, she raised a hand to strike him, but the officers held her back. This was the first time I'd seen her raise a hand against Finn. Seeing there was no turning back now, Finn threw his head back and laughed before fixing Mom with an icy stare. "Me? Cruel? You taught me everything I know. "If I'm the murderer, what does that make you, the one who called all the doctors to my ward and left him to die on the operating table? If not for you, do you think I could've killed him so easily?" His words stabbed into Mom's heart, and her body stiffened as if her soul was weighed down by the guilt of her mistakes. The horror of her actions finally crashed over her, and guilt toward me overwhelmed her like a tide. Clutching her hair, her eyes widened with hysteria as she shook her head violently. "I'm sorry, Asher… It's all my fault… I wronged you for years… I should be the one dead…" She crawled to my grave and hugged my tombstone, sobbing. As she did, she stroke