“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.”

the main house toward the

often visited. Zachary went to the backyard by himself without

a

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 pain before

just two steps, he would collapse

grass as he would not feel too much pain

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

sweated buckets just to be able to stand and walk on

face was sickeningly pale as what he had been through was very

lying on the

trimmed by the gardeners to resemble animals. When Duncan fell onto the ground, Zachary

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

was exhausted and did not have

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