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Chapter 103 - Difficulties
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2024-10-29 19:42:56The next few weeks sort of dragged on.
It was the same routine nearly everyday- drop Ezekiel off at school, go to work, and visit Asher.
Then Cailen would pick Ezekiel up from school, bring him home to eat and finish his homework and then they'd go to the hospital together and visit Asher.
Cailen often had to work the second half of his shift so either Noah or William would come by the hospital and sit in Asher's room with Ezekiel just in case Asher fell asleep or got cranky.
He was actually doing better with that, learning to just shut up when he got irritated, but he was getting more easily irritated everyday.
Cailen assumed it had to do with Physio and how it wasn't going as fast as Asher had liked it to- it never did.
Cailen didn't know why patients never listened when they told them that Physio was not magic, that it would take a lot of time and hard work bef
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