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

Marcus had, then did I realize where he had gotten the confidence to do that. At that

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

trying to tell me, I tentatively said, “Marcus wants to die, and you’re planning to

hear the officers

contacted any

person on the line said that he doesn’t have a daughter. Apparently, they’ve cut ties a long time

such

Hurry up and ask

she had chosen Marcus; she had

only home she

foolish. I could only hope

lips, but I did not know whether she was laughing at herself or at someone else. As if she had made up her mind about something, the look in her eyes abruptly

went down, and I did not know what else

day, that term of his would

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