Chapter 89 A Bond and a Wall

“I can’t…”

Feeling Rex’s resistance waning, Daron and Tyler silently let go.

“I just can’t…”

Rex covered his face and cried out. A few drops of tears flowed out from the gaps between his fingers.

The others lowered their heads and did not speak. The only sound in the large room was his sobs, which he tried to suppress. Hearing that, the others felt so bad for him.

“I know. I know you can’t. I understand what you are feeling…” Amelie could only silently hold Rex by the shoulder and patted him on the back.

She thought, I have always been the one needing protection and hiding behind my

brothers.

Unexpectedly, I became the one supporting Rex today.

After a while, Rex calmed down a little, but he still looked a little depressed.

“It’s not like there’s no room for maneuver.” Amelie arranged his hospital gown for him, which was wrinkled because of the earlier struggle. “Behave and listen to the doctor. Take rest and actively cooperate with the doctor’s treatment for rehabilitation,

and I’m sure you will be fine.”

Yet in fact, Amelie was tentative as well.

She thought, the doctor simply didn’t advise him to engage in highpressure work again. The doctor did not say whether he would recover or how well he would recover.

Even if he does return to work, will he have a relapse?

All of these are unknown questions.

But I’m willing to believe him. Rex has always been outstanding. How can he be so easily defeated by some surgery?

“Really?”

out and looked at his palm.

a thick cocoon on his joints.

“Yes!”

nodded hard. “If you don’t believe me, let’s pinky swear! If you don’t

by

say that.”

her mouth. “I believe you. OK?

that, the other three

gestured to Amelie with his eyes to the soup and

table.

I saw you.”

sighed, consciously picked up the bowl on the table,

had finished eating, Aaron left since he had

left in a hurry, leaving Amelie and Rex in

and watched the people coming and going below. No one

fact, you didn’t think it

looked at his

How can I let

retracted his gaze and returned to the bed. He threw the heavy

time, he always felt that he was a lot weaker, and even the breeze that had just

me about that organization

once. She got up and closed the open window a

the past, when she had asked Rex to do so, he had always refused her on the grounds

to those at the top, scouring the world for intelligence, and dealing with tough people

what do you do mainly?”

taken on pretty much everything. Do you remember all those bad people you see on TV committing all sorts of crimes? It was I who

Such memories should bring

the guy I was working with was from Oakland as well. Because we keep our identities secret, we only know each other where we are

sadness. “We hit it off. Unfortunately, he got injured on a mission,

friends to acquaintances.”

Amelie nodded thoughtfully.

bond and a wall between him and his

the special nature of his work, he can’t share them with anyone. Instead, he can only keep them to himself silently and savor

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