Afraid of being too busy alone at the hospital, after notifying the hospital, Karen called her parents.

The ambulance arrived in no time.

Paramedics jumped out and swiftly loaded Kenneth onto a stretcher.

"Bro, you better not scare me like this!" Karen's voice quivered, her hands trembling uncontrollably.

To Karen, Kenneth was more than a cousin; he was her brother.

Once at the hospital, doctors whisked him away into the ER for a battery of tests.

Karen settled the bills but couldn't follow him in; she was left to wait on a hard plastic bench for her parents to arrive. In the tense interim, she shot a text to Jeffrey.

yearned for Jeffrey's

face had sent her into a panic, her heart still pounding in

to head out soon and be there

work, and she shouldn't always disrupt him, especially with the Lopez Corporation's multi-million, sometimes billion-dollar deals on the line. She wouldn't let her crisis hinder

was her dad, Derek, who arrived first. He scanned the

we got here. I have

tell him." "Right. Don't make him skip work for every little thing. It's not easy working at a big corporation like that; must be exhausting.” Karen nodded, "Don't worry, Dad. I'm grown up now." "Stop crying, kiddo." Derek handed her a tissue. "I'm here now, and your mom will be here any

ER was on the ground floor, just a few steps from the

Wipe your eyes," Derek said, passing

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