For days, I went back and forth between the house and my mother's hospital room.
Within a short time, exhaustion had taken its toll on me.
Then one day, I returned home to pick up some clean clothes.
While I was in the bedroom, I heard the voices of Felix and Bastian.
For reasons I couldn't explain, I hid behind the wardrobe.
Bastian came into our bedroom and looked around. After making sure no one was there, he returned to the living room.
"Relax. There's nobody here. Grace is busy taking care of that woman Audrey."
I recognized the voice immediately.
It belonged to my husband.
"Good," Felix replied. "We've been planning this for far too long to let anything go wrong now."
Then I heard his contemptuous laugh.
"Like mother, like daughter. They're both idiots. That old woman is u
