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.

sleep again. I thought it best to come back." Jonathan glanced at the emergency room door, "Here,

lowered his eyelashes, listening to his

would do everything to stop me, worried it would harm my health, saying drinking was bad

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

But it wasn't possible.

doctors had he

up

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

tone carried a

replaced with a casual father-son

father's words

Indeed.

would give up

how could he not understand

own thoughts! As parents, we really shouldn't impose our

words barely finished, the emergency

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