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.

closed my eyes and...I dreamed that your mother was gone! It scared me awake, and I dared not sleep again. I thought it best

lowered his eyelashes, listening to his father sigh beside

and your mom would do everything to stop me, worried it would harm

II

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

yet, they kept ending up back in this godforsaken

She certainly doesn't deserve Dorothy's forgiveness, but she hasn't wronged

tone carried a

previous confrontation, replaced with

responded, his father's words echoing in his

Indeed.

would give up

he not understand his father's

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

words barely finished, the emergency room

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