"He is gone?" Angie asked in disbelief.
"I'm so sorry," Bill said.
"He can't be," Angie went on. "He said he wanted to rest for a while. He is sleeping, he isn't dead."
"Miss, we have tried looking for a pulse, but we couldn't find any. I'm so sorry about this," Bill said as he excused himself.
Alice and Gabriel were too shocked to say anything, and Gabriel wordlessly followed Bill to his office.
"My condolences," Bill said.
"Thank you. This is where I say thank you for caring for him," Gabriel said. His eyes were red from crying.
"I bet so," Bill answered and kept quiet. The two sat there, looking at each other, not knowing what the other was thinking, until Gabriel broke the silence.
"The pain is too much to bear, you know. I have lost two of the most important people in my life in a span of a week," he said.
Bill knew of his dad only and silently wondered who the other person was.
