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 special treatment for your decrepit old man? Dream on. If you want service, you'd better be ready to pay for it. Got

words. He strode away, filled a cup with water from

went to the payment office, paid off Holbrook's surgery and hospital bills, and—still seething-arranged

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

a single member of the Iverson family came to

now, more than ever, he longed for

in those two weeks, his voice thin and weary when he turned to his son and

month ago, insisting he hire a nurse for

it hit Sawyer-what he'd thought was a happy family was, in

even know how

saw his son's silence

his thoughts turned

him vitamins and herbal supplements. Back when Sawyer was always at work, it

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