Bound By A Borrowed Heart
One of them, a man with broad shoulders and a yellow vest, stands up from the figure lying on the asphalt.
He shakes his head and he pulls a white sheet over the body.
The sheet turns transparent in the rain, clinging to the small, frail form underneath.
Mom.
"No," the word falls from my lips like a stone. "No. She’s just sleeping. She just fell."
A sharp, piercing sound cuts through the fog in my brain. Beep. Beep. Beep.
It is coming from my chest. My pacemaker, the device that keeps my broken heart pumping, is sending a warning signal. My pulse is too high.