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 his father sigh beside

do everything to

II

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,

But it wasn't possible.

many doctors had

they kept ending up back in this

your mom! She certainly doesn't deserve Dorothy's

carried a rare

the previous confrontation, replaced

his father's words

Indeed.

would give up all his

not understand his father's

force you. After all,

As parents, we

you."

our

shoulder, "In a blink, you've grown up

words barely finished, the emergency

came out, "Family

"Here!"

immediately stood up, walking forward with

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