Behind them, the ICU doors remained shut. Machines beeped faintly through walls. Life measured in numbers and lines.
"It's time you give up mom. Anna is not a sheild you could use anymore"
Roseline's eyes flickered. "She is my daughter and she has to be there for me" she snapped only to make Kathrine chuckle in disbelief.
"The let face the reality. You have lost your only daughter and there is nothing you could"
The truth stung more than anger ever could. Roseline looked down at her phone again, at Anna's name still glowing on the screen.
Kathrine had always known the truth about Roseline.
Roseline would never love her the way a mother should love a daughter — freely, fiercely, without calculation. With Roseline, affection always carried weight. A purpose. A quiet expectation attached to it.
But Anna… Anna had never seen that side.
