Tessa felt terrible.
She didn't know what to say, nor how to comfort Silas.
Silas seemed on the brink of breaking down.
He asked Tessa to leave; he wanted to be alone.
"Silas, regardless of whether you're Dad's biological child, in Dad's heart, you're his son; in my heart, you're my brother." Leaving that thought behind, Tessa hugged Silas again before departing.
Silas seemed dumbfounded, showing no reaction, just sitting on the hospital bed dazedly.
For a long time, maintaining the same posture.
Until stepmother came into the ward.
Stepmother sobbed, "Silas, you must help Mom, he wants to divorce Mom."
Silas was much calmer than before, looking at stepmother with a gaze, and asked once again: "I'm really not your son?"
