The doctor told them to let Mr. Ernest rest. Mrs. Ernest didn’t want to let go, but she knew he was coming home soon and let go of his hands.

“Thank you for this, doctor. Thank you so much,” she thanked him with a hug. Her little girls giggled, and Stephanie smiled at them.

The doctor ushered them out of the room to let their father rest. “A good Samaritan actually paid for the machine we used to wake him up.”

Stephanie’s eyes twitched. “A good Samaritan?” Her brain immediately went to the doctor that had asked her to be his girlfriend in order to pay her father’s bills.

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