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.

It scared me awake, and I dared not sleep again. I thought it best to come back." Jonathan glanced at the emergency room door, "Here, I can

lowered his eyelashes, listening to his

always had to attend social gatherings with drinking, and your mom would do everything to stop me, worried it would harm

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thinking a lot! All 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

But it wasn't possible.

many doctors had he

up back in

please forgive your mom! She certainly doesn't deserve Dorothy's

carried a rare

the previous confrontation, replaced with a

responded, his father's words

Indeed.

too would give up all

could he not understand his

As parents, we really shouldn't impose our plans on you." Jonathan raised his hand,

the emergency room

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