889 She's alive but....

["You're never going to change, it's your nature, mother. Going from bad to worse, that's just the way you are. Unfortunately, I'm sick and tired of being made promises only to break them and I get hurt in the end. I think it's better if we returned the way we were."] 

Those words were fresh in Adele's mind and haunted her as she pushed through the door opening into the lobby and ran into the hospital like a mad woman. While she had been confident saying those words to her mother, she didn't feel the same now. If anything, terror clawed right into her, leaving her cold and trembling. 

At first, it had seemed like a joke, like some prank when she had gotten that call that her mother was in her hospital. How could it be when she had seen her hours ago at her place and even promised her to stay safe? But that wasn't what she heard, right now, her mother was hanging on the precipice of life and death. Right now, death seems more likely.