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."

eyelashes, listening to

to stop me, worried it would harm my health, saying drinking was bad

II

lot! All that fame and fortune I chased my whole life, playing games in the business world, the socializing and drinking, in the end, those things...they don't amount to anything! Like now, if I could spend a fortune to cure your mother, to have her healthy again, I'd

But it wasn't possible.

doctors had

up back in this godforsaken

certainly doesn't

tone carried a rare

the previous confrontation, replaced with a casual father-son

his father's words echoing in his

Indeed.

too would give up all his savings

he not understand

won't force you. After all,

As parents, we

you."

impose our

son's shoulder, "In a blink, you've grown

barely finished, the emergency room

out,

"Here!"

immediately stood up, walking forward with

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