Chapter 86 I Promise

• Bryce's POV
• As soon as the doctor told us that our father would be fine, everything that we were arguing about seemed to disappear. Ace wraps his arm around our mother and gives her a little squeeze, a move that would have once been done by Chris. By the look on Chris's face I can tell that the argument between him and our mother is far from over.
• The doctor quickly leads us back to our father's recovery room. He looks like he has aged years in just a few hours. Bruises, cuts, and scrapes are covering his body. His eyes are sunken in and he looks as if he hasn't slept in weeks. I wonder how long he has looked so tired. My brothers and I have been so focused on our own lives and drama that, I think, we missed the toll that it was taking on the rest of the family.