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2024-10-29 19:42:56(Asher’s POV)
I tapped impatiently on the dinner table while my mind is filled with thoughts. Once in awhile I would grunt, and my deep thinking finaly ended when I couldn’t think of any solution at all.
I got up from the dinner table and sauntered to the sofa to lie down there.
Back in the hospital, unexpectedly, I got to listen the real situation as to why Elaine have such high suicidal intent in the first place.
“Her parents’ death weren’t the trigger to her anxiety and depression. Instead…” The flashback paused and was now added with a new image in mind about a couple of corporate entering the ward room. I’ve seen her horrified face before but it’s the first time she’s terrorized she literally became frozen stiff. My gaze then wandered to the couple. Now wonder Elaine was so terrified of them, these two corporates in front of me… doesn’t have any feeling of love at all in their eyes.
“…She’s traumatized by her own uncle and aunt who took c
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