**KIERAN MORISSON**
Consumed by emotions, their voices and words kept replaying in my head over and over again. I didn't try to stop it. It all almost felt surreal, but the searing pain in my heart was anything but.
And if I hadn't stumbled upon their discussion, I still would have been left in the dark.
If dad's condition was as severe as mom said, then these few weeks might be the last time I would get to see him alive, and mom had deemed it not important to tell me.
Damn it.
So those hospital visits for cancer patients hadn't been fake after all. I thought he was doing it for public attention, but all these time, he was a patient?
I clenched my fingers painfully tight, my eyes closed as I exhaled raggedly through clenched teeth.
And Ollie? He had known about it. He had spent these weeks with me, and he hadn't said anything either.
He chose my mom over me.
