Liana's POV

Everything vanished.

My mother's soft breathing. Cam's tiny sighs. Even the continuous beep of the heart monitor faded into the background noise of the ringing in my ears. I stared at the screen as if it would shift into something else- something safer, something less explosive but it didn't. The words had the weight of an impending storm cloud ready to break open. My fingers closed around the phone as if holding on tighter could stop whatever was incoming.

Mom sat up ...