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.

that your mother was gone! It scared me awake, and I dared not sleep again. I thought it best to come back."

eyelashes, listening to his father sigh

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

II

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

But it wasn't possible.

doctors had he

kept ending up back in

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

tone carried

the previous confrontation, replaced with

responded, his father's

Indeed.

up

could he not

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

barely finished, the

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