The Day I Quit Being a Wife (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 24

Eun Soo turned her head.

Outside the window, thick darkness filled every inch, so dense that nothing a hand’s breadth away could be distinguished.

Darkness so complete that no one would know what had happened.

“Mom, I’m so sorry.”

Eun Soo quickly wiped away the tears welling beneath her eyes with her hand.

Her vision kept blurring from the tears.

“You’re struggling too, aren’t you…?”

The sob she’d been holding back burst out all at once.

Crying uncontrollably, Eun Soo sank to her knees right there on the floor, still clutching the respirator covering her mother’s face with one hand.

Resting her forehead against the bed, Eun Soo lifted her head and looked at her mother.

Though pale and bloodless, her mother looked peaceful.

If this weren’t a hospital—if this were any other place—anyone might mistake her for merely asleep rather than a patient.

Eun Soo suddenly recalled the time her mother had briefly stayed in the ICU due to pneumonia.

Patients in the ICU were generally either on the verge of death or urgently needed aggressive treatment.

Her mother had been right on that borderline.

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