Gracevale Medical Center.

A separate small building. Only one patient lived in it—Julian.

Julian was still unconscious. Madam Hale sat by the bed, her hair bun fallen loose, her clothes thrown on without care, obviously rushed over from home.

She covered her mouth as she cried, terrified of startling her unconscious son, terrified of adding even a thread of pain to him.

Even now, she still couldn’t accept what Laura had ...