Mrs. Lewis was silent on the other end of the line for a while before she asked, “Liberty is now awake and out of danger. When are you coming back? You must be tired after keeping watch the whole night in the hospital. Come home and rest.”

“Mom, I’m not tired. I can still hold on, so you don’t have to worry about me.”

Mrs. Lewis wanted to lash out at her son.

Even so, she held back.

She did not say anything else and silently hung up the phone.

After his mom ended the call, Duncan put h