Kimi stared at her half-packed suitcase, her hands trembling as she folded another shirt. Her mother's voice still echoed in her mind from their earlier phone conversation.
"Come to the pack immediately."
The urgency in her mother's tone had sent ice through Kimi's veins. When she pressed for details, her mother's response was simple yet devastating.
"I am not feeling well. I want to see you."
Those words hit Kimi like a physical blow. Her mother was everything to her, the only family she had left who truly cared. The thought of losing her made Kimi's chest tighten with panic.
She grabbed her phone from the nightstand, her thumb hovering over a familiar contact. Alvin's name glowed on the screen, taunting her with memories of better times.
He had been more than a friend once. She had genuinely accepted him as her brother, trusted him with secrets she had never shared with anyone else. But that was before everything fell apart.
