Chapter 76. Resolve

"I'm fine here, Ulysses. I'm too tired to even try to leave and go back to the hospital," I told him lazily when we entered the house.

The whole area was quiet because it was already late at night. I'm sure Amari is resting, which I'm thankful for because I'm not yet able to answer the possible questions he'll throw at me.

"Are you sure?"

"Just… leave. I need to rest," I told him tiredly. He just nodded.

Thinking that he was going to leave for good, I turned around but I couldn't take another step when I heard him calling me. But he didn't say a thing. Suddenly he hugged me so tightly that I completely gave up.

"Know that everything will be alright. We're all here for you," he whispered.

I've heard these words every single day ever since the day of reckoning and I have to tell them the words with the same monotonic resolve that I have. My well-being cannot stomach the idea of not holding it together.

I ricochet back the interrogative