Chapter 72

• I had fallen asleep in a chair that I had pulled up next to my mother's bed, my hand intertwined with hers. When I woke up, it was because someone shook my shoulder. I only moved my face without even fully getting up, seeing my brother with a smile.
• "Go home," he murmurs calmly. "Ethan is outside to take you."
• As I sit up in the chair and stretch to relieve the pain from sleeping in an uncomfortable position, I notice that he also brought me a coffee.