"I told you—"
"Mary," William interrupted her, "I know you don't want to see me nor do you want me to meet my children. However, they are my flesh and blood. Since I know everything now, how can I just sit back and watch? Let me stay with them, Mary."
"Uncle, can you be my patient?" After a while, Elissa got bored of playing alone. She wanted to play with someone else so she turned to William. She tugged on William's sleeve and said in a spoiled tone, "I know how to make an injection!"
"Okay." William turned around and smiled at her. He ruffled her hair and nodded at her.
"Uncle, give me your hand."
"Here you go."
"This is a cotton swab. Wipe it."
The big one and the small one started to play as if there was no one else around. Mary looked at them with mixed feelings. Her heart was filled with complicated feelings that she could not decipher.
After a long time, a nurse came in and announced, "The kid in Ward 303 has woken up. Are you his parents?"
Mary nodded at her and rushed out excitedly.
"Alick is awake!" William got up quickly and picked Elissa up. "Elissa, your brother is awake! Let's go see him together, okay?"
"Okay."
"Alick!" Mary rushed into the ward. When she got inside, several doctors surrounded Alick, examining him.
As soon as he heard his mother's voice, tears streamed down his usually serious face. "Mommy," he called in a low voice.
"Good boy, Alick," said Mary. She ran to the bedside and carefully held him while avoiding the wound on his head. "Doctor, how is he doing?" asked Mary to the doctor nearest her.
"He's all right. He can leave the hospital once the wound on his head recovers."
"Thank you, doctor."
e getting more and more verbose."
"It's for your own good," said Amy, holding his arm. "You are getting older. Of course, you need to come to the hospital to check your body from time to time. Besides, you said you had a headache yesterday. Have you forgotten?"
"That's not a big deal."
"We're already at the hospital. Why are you still refusing to do the examination? There won't be any loss for you."
"Ah, Mr. Lan has arrived!"
"How are you, Mr. Lan?"
As soon as the couple entered the hospital, the director and the dean came out to welcome them. Several people walked in and exchanged greetings.
Meanwhile, Alick did not like to stay in the ward all the time, so he asked Hester to wheel him out to the garden to bask in the sun.
However, Elissa turned out to be more excited than her brother. Before even gaining the permission from Mary, she ran out excitedly.
"Aunt Hester, let's hurry up and catch up with my sister, shall we?" Sitting on a wheelchair, Alick could not hold back his desire to play outdoors either.
Elissa was so curious why there were a bunch of people gathered in the hall. She joined the crowd and jumped behind them to see the group of people in the center.
"Elissa, watch out!"
Alick followed closely behind. When he saw Elissa running around aimlessly, he could not help but cry out loud.
Timothy heard a boy's shout and looked into the direction of the sound. When he saw the little boy sitting on a wheelchair in front of him, Timothy's eyes widened all of a sudden.
"Um?" Amy saw the little boy as well. With her lips trembling, she whispered, "William... How could he look like William? How could they look exactly same?"