“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

as he often visited. Zachary went to the backyard by himself without needing

a piece of lawn

Duncan gritted his teeth while enduring the pain on his trembling legs as he was struggling to take a

just two steps, he would collapse on

grass as he would not feel too much pain even if he

it was

able to stand and

was sickeningly pale as what he had

his crutches were left lying

evergreen shrubs, which have been trimmed by the gardeners to resemble animals. When Duncan fell onto the

he saw

and did not have the

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