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.

I dared not sleep again. I thought it best to

listening to his father sigh

with drinking, and your mom would do everything to stop me, worried it would harm my health, saying drinking was bad for me. And

II

and drinking, in the end, those things...they don't amount to anything! Like now, if I

But it wasn't possible.

doctors

yet, they kept ending up back in this godforsaken

mom! She certainly doesn't deserve Dorothy's forgiveness, but she

carried a rare

the previous confrontation, replaced

simply responded, his father's words echoing in

Indeed.

too would give up all his savings

not understand his father's

thoughts! As parents, we really shouldn't impose our plans on you." Jonathan raised his hand, patting his son's

barely finished, the emergency room door

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