Hearing this, both Victoria and Tobias froze and exchanged a look.
Tobias's expression grew serious. He asked tentatively, "Mr. Sanger, you don't remember what happened before you lost consciousness?"
"Lost consciousness? What are you talking about?"
Garnett frowned, his gaze shifting to Victoria, full of searching and confusion, as if trying to pull something from the fog of his memory.
"Your brother's birthday was a couple of days ago. Didn't you two just come to visit me? We even had birthday cake together. Speaking of which, it really gets on my nerves. Your brother's almost thirty and doesn't even have a girlfriend..."
The more Victoria heard, the heavier her heart felt. She interrupted him, her voice strained, "Dad, what you're talking about... that was almost five months ago."
Garnett's voice stopped abruptly. He stared at Victoria in shock, his mind going blank as his pupils trembled. "Five months?"
Victoria nodded, pressing her lips together.
"How is that possible? I remember it so clearly—" Suddenly, as if realizing something, Garnett stopped mid-sentence.
If he really remembered so clearly, then why was he lying in a hospital bed? And how could Tobias, who was supposed to be overseas, suddenly be at his bedside? And...
The digital clock on the wall clearly showed that today was January 16th, but Grady was born in the fall.
***
Soon, the attending physician arrived. After learning about Garnett's memory loss, he immediately scheduled a full-body examination.
Nearly a hundred different tests, from head to toe, were conducted, lasting late into the night before Garnett was finally returned to his room.

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