DID I MAKE YOU LOOK STUPID?

I ended the call, the moment he uttered ‘okay.’ I looked up to see the policemen from earlier standing by the side of that door. Ethan must have called them over there. Good! Now, the matron had nowhere to run to. My phone dinged—the notifications of videos clouding the front screen. Not hesitating, I moved through to them all, knowing exactly what I was looking for. My hands paused on a particular video. And I looked at the time written on it—nine forty five, which was a few minutes after I left the hospital. My mother lay on the bed still peacefully asleep. I stared at the screen, watching as the matron walked in her room. But the sight of who was beside her, made the air from my lungs disperse. It was—Vivian. Even through the phone, I could see the murderous expression on Vivian’s face as she watched my mother lay there peacefully. She then turned to the matron, her voice echoing through the loud speaker of my phone. “Wake her up. I want to see the pain in her eyes when I finally e