Chapter 53 Incident or Accident?

***Hazel***

The administrator stops me before I can reach my mother’s room.

Her hand comes up gently, not grabbing, not forceful, just enough to halt my forward momentum like a physical warning I don’t understand yet.

“Ms. Hayes,” she says softly. Too softly.

I look past her anyway. The door is only a few steps away. I can almost see the familiar corner of the bed through the crack. “I need to see