**Adrian POV**
The hospital was the same as it had been before, sterile and bright and full of the beeping sounds of machines that were keeping people alive who should probably be allowed to die with dignity, and I walked through the corridors with Elena beside me and Charlotte's text message burning in my pocket.
"Room 428 this time, Dad's condition is critical, come now."
We took the elevator to the fourth floor and when the doors opened I saw them all standing in the hallway outside my father's room like they were afraid to go in, like being near him might somehow make them next.
Charlotte was there crying into a tissue and James was there with his arms crossed looking grim and Maya was standing slightly apart from everyone checking her phone, and when I walked up Lily appeared from
