Avery woke up from her sleep sometime later but saw no one inside her ward.

Neither Elliot nor the bodyguard was there.

She remembered Elliot saying that he would keep her company there, so she took out her phone and checked the time.

It was an hour to midnight.

She felt nothing but pain at the moment.

She found Elliot's number from her contacts and hit dial.

"You're awake, Avery?" Elliot asked. "I'll accompany you right away."

Her lips moved and her voice was very soft. "You don't need to come if it's not convenient for you..."

"I'm in the hospital. I'll go there right away," Elliot said and ended the call.

Jed's body had been sent to the hospital, so the most pressing issue was to find out why Jed died so suddenly.

Furthermore, there was the question of why he sent that kind of message to Avery. If he was going to leave, what could have prevented him from leaving?

There was this feeling that the death was a murder instead of accidental.

Elliot returned to the ward with th