Hospital – Private Consultation Room
The room was quiet, cold, and too bright.
Amber's expression hardened as she folded her arms.
Amber : If my hypotheses is correct,l think he died alone .
Jonathan stared at her, still trying to understand her previous words.
Jonathan: "What do you mean by that?" 😟
Amber looked directly at him.
Amber: "What if you… weren't there for him?"
Jonathan frowned, immediately becoming defensive.
Jonathan: "What the hell are you saying? I was there for him!" 😤
Amber: "No. Listen properly."
Her voice dropped.
Amber: "I mean… what if you weren't alive at that time?"
Jonathan froze.
For a moment, he couldn't even process the sentence.
Jonathan: "I… what do you mean…?" 😶
Amber exhaled slowly.
Amber: "If my guess is right, Justin died young in his previous life. And if you weren't alive during that time, everything might fall into place."
Jonathan's breathing became uneven.
Amber continued, her eyes fixed somewhere in the distance.
Amber: "If you were already dead, then I think everything might have started with your mother."
Jonathan: "My mother?" 😶
Amber nodded.
Amber: "Knowing myself… I might have killed Mrs. Kim for some reason."
Jonathan's eyes widened.
Amber: "Your father loved her more than his own life. If she died, he probably would've followed her."
She paused, considering the terrible chain of possibilities.
Amber: "Without your parents, you would've been completely broken. And knowing how much you loved your family, you might have blamed me for everything. You would've wanted revenge."
Her voice lowered.
Amber: "And when you eventually realised you couldn't live without me… you might have taken your own life too."
Jonathan felt the blood drain from his face.
He stared at her, unable to believe what he was hearing.
Amber continued.
Amber: "Your brothers would've been left without you. They might have gone their separate ways. The Devis family would've fallen apart."
She clenched her jaw.
Amber: "And Justin? He would've been alone."
Her expression became darker.
Amber: "With all the enemies I've made over the years… someone would've eventually found him. They might have killed him."
Silence.
The possibilities hung between them like a nightmare.
Amber slowly turned towards Jonathan.
Her eyes were calm, but her words were terrifying.
Amber: "So tell me, Jonathan. Doesn't it make sense now?" 😑
Jonathan stared at her.
His mind tried to reject every possibility she had described.
But one thought kept returning.
Justin.
His little boy.
His son.
Alone.
Without his father, without his grandparents, without his uncles, and without anyone to protect him.
The world around Jonathan began to blur.
His chest tightened.
His throat felt blocked.
Jonathan (thinking): No…
My Justin? Alone?
He died?
And nobody was there to save him?
His knees suddenly weakened.
Jonathan: "…Amber… stop…"
He tried to say something else, but his voice disappeared.
His vision turned completely white.
THUD!
Jonathan collapsed from the chair onto the floor.
Jonathan: (Fainted)
Amber blinked.
She stared at him for a moment.
Amber: "…What the—?" 😑
She immediately crouched beside him.
Amber: "Jonathan?"
She tapped his cheek.
Amber: "Hey! Idiot! Wake up!"
No response.
Amber: "Jonathan, I'm talking to you!"
She checked on him, then sighed when she realised he had simply fainted from the shock.
Amber (thinking): Who faints over a hypothesis?!
She looked at his unconscious face.
Amber: "You're the head of the Devis family. How are you this weak?" 😑
But her expression soon softened.
She understood why he had reacted that way.
Even though everything she had described was only a possibility, Jonathan had imagined his son suffering through an entire lifetime without his family.
For a father who loved his child that deeply, even imagining such a fate was unbearable.
Amber gently brushed a hand over her forehead and sighed.
Amber: "…This is going to be harder than I thought." 😔
TO BE CONTINUED…