Indeed, Amanda was hospitalized.

The court had ordered the transfer of the suspect back to the detention center, and just one day after Amanda's return, her condition worsened.

Everett had been at the hospital for two days.

He hadn't told Dorothy because he was still undecided.

It was such a difficult decision to make...

The hospital felt especially cold in the dead of night.

Everett sat on a bench, his lips pressed tightly together, silent.

Suddenly, footsteps echoed from the other end of the hospital corridor.

He looked up to see Jonathan, who was supposed to have gone to rest, returning.

"Dad, I'll stay here tonight. You go get some sleep."

Jonathan's face was pale, as if he had been scared by something, and he shook his head, "No, I'll just sit here."

"What's wrong?" Everett offered his father a hand.

dared not sleep again. I thought

to

do everything to

II

that fame and fortune I chased my whole life, playing games in the business world, the socializing and drinking, in the end, those things...they don't amount to anything! Like now, if I could spend a

But it wasn't possible.

many doctors had

yet, they kept ending up back in this godforsaken

your mom! She certainly doesn't

carried

replaced with

simply responded, his father's words echoing in his

Indeed.

give up

how could he not

you're grown up, with your own thoughts! As parents, we really shouldn't impose our plans on you." Jonathan raised

words barely finished, the emergency room door

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