There were times when he felt like the world was slowly disappearing in front of him, or perhaps it was him that was fading in the darkness.
Right now, those moments didn’t matter. Nothing mattered except the fragile woman lying between the cleansed white sheets in front of him.
With each inhalation, his lungs burned, heart-hitting against his chest so hard that he thought it would shatter his ribs and tore his skin apart. He couldn’t hear anything except the annoying beeping sound from the heart monitor telling him she is alive mixed with his shaky breath. He bit his lips, seeing her chest rise and fall, breath fogging the mask over her pale lips.
He held her hands tightly, resting his wrinkled forehead on it as he feels the black hole inside his heart, ripping through his d
