She remembered him calling her this way back

then, but it had been before she left without notice.

Before that, Carter had truly been good to her.

“ Shirley, don’t worry. No matter what happens to you, I’ll take care of you forever.”

Carter promised softly.

Shirley could not believe what she heard. She felt her heart skipping a beat, and tears escaped her eyes disobediently once again.

Carter, noticing the tears in the corners of Shirley’s eyes, paused, looking pleasantly surprised.

“Shirley, you’re awake? Are you awake?”

Shirley did not want to keep up the act any further. She slowly opened her wet, red eyes, and calmly met an elated Carter.

“I don’t need you to take care of me, and I won’t go back to St. Piaf with you. I want to die in Glendale, to die in my hometown. I want to be buried with my parents and brother.”

her hand away

you again. Seeing you merely reminds me that I killed my brother

face as she spoke. She refused to

seeing how strongly Shirley resisted

he kept the displeasure

the fire that killed Adam and Cathy.

to do with you?” Shirley laughed. “Even now, you’re still trying

playing innocent. That’s

then. The truth is that I no

Shirley slowly opened her tearful eyes. “Despite our vastly different statuses, we had

or die, I’ll have nothing to do with you. If you still have any sympathy or humanity in you, please respect my

momentarily

glance, Carter pressed his lips together. He eventually turned around and left

the door closing, she opened

ceiling and

had asked the runner to send the test reagents out the morning when Carter and

must have received

She had never thought about developing more anti-toxoid test reagents. She did

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