It felt like a thorn had lodged itself in my throat, and it refused to go up nor go down. Nevertheless, it kept reminding me of its presence, denying me of any moment of peace.

Fortunately, Camelia did not make any other moves, so the heart in my throat lowered slightly.

After recomposing myself, I said in a much calmer tone than before, “Tell me, Camelia. What do you want to agree to come back?”

However, Camelia ignored me and asked, “Did you visit him?”

Marcus?

It was a few seconds before I nodded. “I just came out of his ward. He’s much better than yesterday and he’s finally eating.”

 

“Ha,” came the soft laugh that escaped from behind Camelia’s lips. The morning sun cast a warm, golden veil on her face, but somehow, she still looked miserable. “Then, do you know that they had just resuscitated him?”

“What?” I knew nothing about what she was saying.

 

“Last night, he selfishly took himself off the oxygen mask. If it was not for my worrying, I wouldn’t have entered his ward to check on him another time. If not for that, what you would have seen in his ward today would have been his dead body.”

His dead body.

heard those three words. Every time I heard it, it brought me more dread than

realize where he had gotten the confidence to do that. At that moment, it felt as if someone had scooped a hole in my heart and let

of killing oneself would only happen on the first suicide attempt. After that, one would be numb. Countless images of my imagination and reality overlapped and reflected on the same ending for Marcus. With once came twice, and with twice came countless times. It would truly be a life where one only lived for the sake of

said, “Marcus wants to die, and you’re planning to follow in

could vaguely hear the officers

any of

have a daughter. Apparently, they’ve cut ties a long time ago, so he refused to

there such cruel

isn’t the time to chat about this. Hurry up and ask where the

ties with her family when she had chosen Marcus; she had

only

realized I had said something foolish. I could only hope that Camelia did

else. As if she had made up

you knew…” My hands slowly went down, and I did not know what else

that term of his would hurt

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