"Miss." Catherine smiled. "Let me handle it, alright?"

She released Persephone's hand, gesturing for her to step aside, and began taking out the medicine packets from the cabinet.

Persephone stood by to watch silently, her heart beating faster and faster.

She felt like Catherine was counting something.

After a while, Catherine murmured to herself, "Why are these medicine packets... missing some?"

"What?" Persephone was stunned. "What's missing?"

"The quantity is short," Catherine said. She placed her hands on her hips and exhaled.

"Miss, look, I remember clearly. There were 25 packs yesterday, but there are only 17 today. How could Mr. Rutherford possibly consume eight doses in a day?

"Moreover..." Catherine paused, lowering her voice. "Except for the first time I brought back and prepared a pack, Mr. Rutherford hasn't had any since then."

you know? Don't you prepare medicine

it, but he doesn't take it." Catherine looked at her. "When I went to clean his room, the flowers in his windowsill pot had

Persephone froze in place.

Seamus' room earlier, she also smelled the herbal scent. She had assumed it was because he took the

actually from the

problematic.

could the medicine have gone wrong? And where did those missing packets go? Persephone's legs

She washed and sorted the vegetables, prepared

seemed routine, yet subtly

stood frozen

do you

breath bated. "What

still care for you." Catherine's tone was nonchalant.

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