Indeed, Amanda was hospitalized.

The court had ordered the transfer of the suspect back to the detention center, and just one day after Amanda's return, her condition worsened.

Everett had been at the hospital for two days.

He hadn't told Dorothy because he was still undecided.

It was such a difficult decision to make...

The hospital felt especially cold in the dead of night.

Everett sat on a bench, his lips pressed tightly together, silent.

Suddenly, footsteps echoed from the other end of the hospital corridor.

He looked up to see Jonathan, who was supposed to have gone to rest, returning.

"Dad, I'll stay here tonight. You go get some sleep."

Jonathan's face was pale, as if he had been scared by something, and he shook his head, "No, I'll just sit here."

"What's wrong?" Everett offered his father a hand.

"I just closed my eyes and...I dreamed that your mother was gone! It scared me awake, and I dared not sleep again. I thought it best to come back." Jonathan glanced at the emergency room door, "Here, I can be closer to her."

lowered his eyelashes, listening to his

with drinking, and your mom would do everything to stop me, worried it would harm my health, saying drinking was bad for me.

II

life, playing games in the business world, the socializing and drinking, in the end, those

But it wasn't possible.

many doctors had he

up back in

She certainly doesn't deserve Dorothy's

tone carried a rare

previous confrontation, replaced with a casual father-son

father's words echoing in his

Indeed.

up

he not understand his

force you. After all, you're

As parents,

you."

impose our

shoulder, "In a blink, you've grown

finished, the emergency room door

came out,

"Here!"

walking

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