The trembling in my hands refused to stop even several minutes after Mom lost consciousness again.

The room had fallen into complete silence, yet inside my head, everything was unbearably loud. It felt as though a broken speaker kept replaying the same recording over and over again, refusing to let me think about anything else.

‘Your uncle.’

Those two words echoed relentlessly in my mind.

No matter how desperately I tried to push them away, they always came back.

It couldn't be ...