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.

you busy?] Suddenly, she yearned

her into a panic,

swamped at the office. Hang tight, babe. I'll try to head out soon and

shouldn't always disrupt him, especially with the Lopez Corporation's multi-million, sometimes billion-dollar deals

arrived first. He scanned

Karen looked up, her eyes brimming with tears, "They took him straight into the ER as soon as we got here. I have no idea what's going on. But he looked so

a tissue. "I'm here now, and your mom will be here any minute. She was picking up groceries at the market. I couldn't wait for her; I was afraid you'd be here all alone, so I took a cab." "I'm gonna step outside for some air. I'll be right back.” Karen needed

the ground floor, just a few steps from the fresh air she

on, then. Wipe your eyes," Derek

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