"Dad, can I go in to stay with La?" Ivy wanted to be there the moment La woke up.


    Elliot nodded. "Ivy, your mother thinks that we are in the wrong. If only we had agreed to them dating, they would have never ended up here, nor would they have been in the disaster..."


    "No one is wrong here, Dad," Ivy said. "If everyone can predict what happens next, there will be no idents or disasters."


    Elliot wasforted by her words.


    "Dad, it''s your responsibility to guide us and help us make the right decisions, and even if you have it wrong sometimes, we won''t me you because no one is perfect. Everyone makes mistakes. You are a great father to me, Dad."


    Elliot pulled her into his arms. "Ivy, I''m so grateful for how understanding you are."


    "Dad, La won''t be mad at you either," Ivy said confidently. "She told me that she loves you and Mom a lot, so don''t beat yourself up."


    "Okay. Go in!" Elliot let her go. "Once La wakes up, you can chat with her for a bit if she is up to it."


    "Okay," Ivy said before entering the room.


    She walked over to the bed and studied La''s pale face. Though La was not dying, she had suffered severe frostbite.


    The doctors had not put an IV cann at the back of La''s hand, and Ivy reached out to touch her hand.


    La''s hands were cold to the touch, so Ivy grabbed them and tried to warm them up.


    Half an hourter, La woke up.


    She had gotten enough sleep that she no longer felt so tired. She was just mentally exhausted.


    "La." Ivy saw La open her eyes and gently said, "La, it''s Ivy."


    La looked at Ivy dazedly, wondering where her parents had gone.


    "Robert sent Mom to the airport because she is going to Bridgedale to see Uncle Eric," Ivy exined. "She wants to see if there''s anything she can help with." La nodded and said hoarsely, "Is he really still alive? Don''t lie to me, Ivy..."


    La remembered how Eric had stopped responding to her while they had been stuck on the mountain.


    "I didn''t see him, but if he had passed away, Mom would not have left for Bridgedale."


    Tears welled in La''s eyes as she recalled what took ce on the mountain. I tried speaking to him, but he would not respond. I touched my forehead against his, but he did not respond to that either... His face was turning blue, and he was ice-cold... I thought that he was dead..."


    "When the rescue team found him, they said he was dead because he wasn''t breathing. We all thought he had died and Mom broke down. Luckily, his heart started beating again after the doctors treated him. I think they said that he had gone into shock."


    La stopped sobbing at Ivy''s words. "Ivy, do you want to know what hisst words to me were?" As she spoke, tears started to roll down her cheeks again. "What did he say?" Ivy asked.


    "He told me to forget about him because he thought that he was dying. He didn''t want me to feel guilty for the rest of my life, so he told me to forget about him and live my life." RêAdt??St chapters at Novel(D)ra/ma.Org Only