Chapter 124: Cruel

The door had long since clicked shut, but its echo still rang in Marco's ears like it was his final judgment.

The silence was suffocating and the heart monitor beside him beeped with a maddening calm which was a cruel contrast to the chaos unraveling inside his chest. His fingers curled uselessly into the bed sheets. He wanted to scream. Tear the room apart. Rip out every tube, every wire, ...