Chapter 241

That day, Sawyer went straight to the hospital where Holbrook was staying.

He searched every corner of the VIP ward Holbrook used to occupy, but found no sign of him. In the end, Sawyer discovered Holbrook lying alone on a makeshift cot in a hallway of the general ward.

Holbrook looked utterly abandoned, stretched out on that narrow hospital bed in the corridor. He kept calling out for water, but none of the nurses bustling past paid him the slightest attention.

Sawyer's eyes burned with anger and something dangerously close to tears. Without thinking, he grabbed a male nurse by the collar and slammed him against the wall.

"Can't you see?" Sawyer ground out through clenched teeth. "My father's thirsty- he's been asking for water. Are you all deaf or just heartless?"

"You call yourself a nurse? Where's your sense of basic decency?" Sawyer's voice was shaking with fury. "What's your name and ID? I'm going to report you." He dug his phone out of his pocket and dialed the hospital director's number.

But no one picked up.

A sick realization crept over Sawyer's face; he could guess what was happening.

and mighty for? You still think you're Mr. Iverson?" He sneered, straightening his wrinkled uniform after shoving Sawyer's hand away. "Go ahead, try reporting me. See if the director cares to bother with you. You want

more words. He strode away, filled a cup with water from the nearest dispenser, and gently helped his father

bills, and—still seething-arranged to transfer his father to

a folding cot and set it up beside Holbrook's bed, settling in

month passed. Not a single member of the Iverson

knew his own condition, and now, more than ever, he longed for his

and weary when he turned to his son and asked, "Sawyer... do you think Aline and Jeanette are ashamed of

guard. The truth was, Aline had flatly refused to come to the hospital half a month ago, insisting he hire a nurse for their father and refusing to set foot there herself. Jeanette, timid as always, was too afraid to

he'd thought was a happy

even know how

saw his son's silence

some reason, his

family home every single week, without fail, to play chess with him or bring him vitamins and herbal supplements. Back when

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