“Where’s Duncan now?” Zachary asked with concern. “I’ll go see him.”

“Mr. Duncan is alone in the backyard, and he doesn’t allow anyone to go there. He said he wants to be alone for a while and doesn’t want to be disturbed.”

Zachary hesitated for a moment but still followed the housekeeper into the house. After greeting Duncan’s parents, he stood up and said to them, “Mr. and Mrs. Lewis, I'll go find Duncan."

Derek nodded. “Go ahead. You’re his best friend. He might be willing to see you.”

“Zack, please talk some sense into Duncan, and tell him to calm down. As soon as he was discharged from the hospital, he wanted to stand up and walk by himself. He couldn’t do rehabilitation yet, but he was anxiously eager to start.”

Distressed, Corey felt worried and added, “I’m afraid that if he’s so impatient, it might backfire on him.”

Zachary agreed. “I’ll talk to Duncan.

“I'm going to look for Duncan in the backyard.”

main house toward the direction of

Westwood Manor as he often visited. Zachary went to

practicing walking on a piece of lawn in

he had to endure the piercing pain every time he stood up. Duncan gritted his teeth while enduring the pain on his trembling legs as he was struggling to take a step forward. With his foot planted on the grass, he had to endure bursts of

just two steps, he would

chose to walk on grass as he would

time he fell. Although it was exhausting Duncan kept getting up no matter how

able to stand and walk on his feet

as what he had been through

lying on

with evergreen shrubs, which have been trimmed by the gardeners to resemble animals.

As he entered the area, he saw Duncan crawling on the ground. He was sprawled on the ground, with

did not have the energy to stand

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