Nicole
"Doctor Lúcio, did you call anyone from the family? Did you try to contact us in any way? Because Davi left his phone registered as the emergency contact just yesterday, not his biological mother's. How did this woman find out?"
My voice came out firm, yet dry, laden with a nervousness I could no longer disguise. We were walking together through the hospital corridors, heading towards the ICU, and with every step I took, my heart was pounding in my chest. The tension consumed me completely, corroding me. Everything was tangled inside me. It felt like at any moment, something else bad was going to happen.
Doctor Lúcio, always very calm, sighed heavily before responding, as if he too had been caught off guard by all the chaos that had erupted just a few hours earlier.
"My dear
