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.

had heard those three words. Every time I heard it, it

confidence to do that. At that moment,

be numb. Countless images of my imagination and reality overlapped and reflected on the same ending for

tell me, I tentatively said, “Marcus wants to die, and you’re planning to follow in his footsteps? Don’t you care about your parents anymore?

vaguely hear the officers whispering to each other behind

contacted any of her family

he doesn’t have a daughter. Apparently, they’ve cut ties a long time ago, so he refused to even come here to

such

about this. Hurry up and ask where

family when she had chosen Marcus; she

was the only home she had

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

or at someone else. As if she had made up her mind about something, the look in her eyes abruptly turned sharp. “I’ll ask you

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

of the day, that term

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