Renee sorted Kaitlyn’s pills, then neatly placed them into a small pillbox for each day of the week. She poured warm water and prepared to remind her mother to take her medicine.

Balancing the cup and medicine, Renee approached the room’s doorway. She suddenly heard her mother’s hushed voice on the phone.

Kaitlyn spoke softly, her tone urgent and low as if she meant it that way.

“Is everything taken care of?

“What? She… hasn’t died?

“You all are a bunch of useless people!

“…I don’t care about that. Just make sure she doesn’t return to Centrolis!”

Renee’s heart skipped a beat. She struggled to catch the words beyond the door. She wasn’t sure who her mother conversed with on the phone, and the thought that her mother could utter such things was hard to accept.

Could it be a misunderstanding? It had to be!

She furrowed her brow as doubts gnawed at her. Her mother had been unwell and withdrawn for so long. How could she now command others to do such things?

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that individual… Watch her closely for me. Don’t let

surged through Renee, and her grip on the

“Who’s out there?”

open the door abruptly. Catching Renee’s

back. The cup slipped from her hand and shattered on

voice icy as she demanded, “What are you

to give

foot. A piece of glass had lodged itself in her foot from the shattered

yourself,” she said coldly. “The first aid kit is in

isn’t in the cabinet,” Renee timidly corrected her. “Our first aid

for a moment before softening her tone. “Renee, go tend to your wound. Give me

“Mom…”

want to watch

head. “I just wanted to say… I also cut up some fruits, and I’ve set up the TV show you like. You can come

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