My mother-in-law was about to drink from her teacup when she looked up at me in surprise. "What? When?"
I stared at her expression long and hard, trying to find a flaw, a c***k. But she really seemed clueless.
I glanced outside the window and said thoughtfully, "On the day just after you visited her."
She seemed to recollect that and sighed. "That was so sudden. She seemed so healthy when I visited her. What happened?"
I suppressed my tears and said word by word, "He committed suicide by taking sleeping pills. "She overdosed on sleeping pills."
The old woman's eyes widened in disbelief. After a while, she put down her teacup and sighed. "What's happened happened. My condolences to you, Sara. Things have been tough for your mother these years. Maybe this release is for the best."
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