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As soon as she finishes packing up, Evie holds the chair and pushes Alec out of the room and consecutively out of the hospital. Howard, who was waiting in the car, quickly approaches, seeing the two leave.

"Leave it to me." he says to Evangeline, occupying himself in pushing the chair to the car. He lightly hits Alec’s shoulder and squeezes him. "What a fright, brother. Don’t do that anymore.”

"No one can talk about it.”

After helping Alec sit in the back seat, Evie occupies the empty seat next to Howard.

"How’s business?" Howard looks sideways at Evangeline, who just nods in denial. Alec frowns and faces the two interchangeably. "What was that?”

"The doctor asked for at least another week away from his..." she looks sideways at Alec. "professional activities.”

"What? This is absurd! I’m..." in an attempt to get closer to the front seats, Alec ends up feeling pain in the belly points. "Oh...”

"Great. We can see that.”

He snorts and settles down, this time more calmly.