Chapter 91

• SIERRA
• I slid open the door to my father’s room in the hospital and my heart broke seeing my father still lying on the same bed he had been sleeping on since nineteen years ago. I usually visited him occasionally every year with the hope that one day I would come to see that bright smile of his. It always hurt whenever I saw him like this but this time, it was worse because it reminded me of the time I went to see Shin in the ICU. No matter how many times I had called out to my husband, he was next to lifeless.
• My vision became hazy from the tears in my eyes and they slowly left my eyes with each step I took towards my father’s bed. There he was sleeping peacefully with the beeping sound of the cardiac monitor filling the room. A bit of his beards were gray and it took me back to the time he used to joke he would never have gray beards. I was seven back then.