Everything happened in a blur, one moment Cedric was holding his wife as she cried and the next he was in the hospital morgue looking down at his mother's cold body.
Even as he looked down at the corpse his mind refused to believe what was in front of him. How could his mother be dead? He was speaking to her a few hours ago and now here was her body, lifeless.
Cedric didn't shed a tear, he didn't understand why. He just stood there as Miguel explained to him what had happened.
"This happens sometimes Cedric, that's why I wasn't too optimistic." Miguel said with a frown as he wiped a tear away. Priscilla Clarin - Reyes was like a second mother to all of them. "Auntie was sick, her cancer was so far advanced that we couldn't even figure out which treatment would help."
