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."

listening to his

mom would do everything to stop me, worried it would harm my health, saying drinking was bad for me. And now...it's her

II

games in the business world, the socializing and drinking, in the end, those things...they don't amount to anything!

But it wasn't possible.

doctors had he

ending up back in this godforsaken

certainly doesn't

carried a

was the previous confrontation, replaced

father's words echoing in his

Indeed.

too would give up all his

could he not understand

force you. After all, you're grown up, with your

parents, we

you."

impose our plans

son's shoulder, "In a blink, you've grown up so much.

barely finished, the emergency room

came out,

"Here!"

walking forward with his

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