Chapter 92— Between the Past and Hope

(Point of view: Guillermo Medina)

The hospital—with its white corridors and echoing silence—had become my second home over the past few weeks. I thought Lili waking up would be the breath of calm I’d been waiting for… but the call I got in the lobby prepared me for a very different kind of shock.

There they were.

Like ghosts from my past.

Sandra, my ex-wife, wearing that same haughty expression as always. And Julia, my eleven-year-old daughter, running