Dorothy awoke with a start, the familiar warmth of another person conspicuously absent from her side.

Glancing at the clock, it read 7 AM — a time when Everett would normally be hunched over his desk, sifting through a mountain of paperwork. But now, he was nowhere to be found in the hospital room.

Concern knitting her brows, Dorothy rose to search for him. She checked the doctor's office, and the long, sterile corridors — no sign of him.

Returning to the room to grab her phone, she dialed Everett's number, only to hear his ringtone echo from within the room.

His phone was left behind.

Odd.

Very odd.

"Dr. Quincy. Have you seen Everett around?" Dorothy inquired, her voice tinged with worry as she ventured out again.

when I woke up." "Well, perhaps you should check the security room? If he left the hospital, he

resigned. "Guess that's the only option I have." In Swevia Country, she was

Lopez is at the front entrance.” Whirling around and peering down from the upper floor, Dorothy's eyes

stairs two at a time. She needed to find out what was going on, and why Everett had left the hospital so early in the

details were

aback at the sight of Everett up close — his complexion was ashen, and his lips drained

what happened to you?" she gasped, instinctively

rasped, his voice a hoarse shadow

only left the room in the morning, a mere hour or

he said, his gaze avoiding hers, an unusual behavior for

was not like him

"Everett, wait." Despite

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