For the three days following, Charlotte had busied herself with gardening chores. Other times, she would help Hayley prepare meals in the kitchen.

Her days were leisurely, albeit her treatment was behind schedule.

Dr. Felch would extract some daily blood samples from Charlotte for testing. However, to everyone’s dismay, there was no breakthrough yet.

In contrast to Mrs. Berry’s anxiousness, Charlotte was unusually laid back.

After all, there was nothing she could do.

Hayley was a cheerful girl. She loved to hum a tune or two when doing her house chores. As such, it brought joy to the room whenever she was around.

 

The scenic and secluded place that Charlotte was in helped her feel more relaxed during her treatment too.

Mrs. Berry was rather impressed by Dr. Felch’s acupuncture treatment on her chronic health issues. She urged the doctor to expedite the antidote research for Charlotte.

 

However, Dr. Felch would repeat the same answer each time he was asked, “We can’t rush it. These things take time.”

Mrs. Berry would then sigh and leave Dr. Felch in peace.

would talk to Zachary and the kids over the phone every night. The kids

not mentioned the incident that she was stalked and ambushed. There wasn’t any mention of the bodyguards

at keeping a tight

once every other day. When that happened, Dr. Felch would let her take the herbal medication. Charlotte would fall asleep after that and wake up feeling

the drill for another

full of herbal ingredients and put them inside Charlotte’s room

to kill some time by tending to Hayley’s vegetable garden, the latter was bustling about in the kitchen, boiling pots

other hand, was preparing some herbal soup in the kitchen while stealing glances at Dr. Felch’s laboratory

again during dinner. Instead of giving her the usual herbal medicine, Dr. Felch asked Mrs. Berry to take Charlotte

returned to their bedroom, they found that Dr. Felch had prepared

Charlotte while she explained, “I have prepared this on Dr. Felch’s order.

of the treatment?” Mrs.

we need to immerse her body

“Alright, alright.”

them gently stripped Charlotte down, they settled her into the bathtub.

started giving verbal instructions to Hayley about which acupoints for

Felch’s instructions, Hayley inserted a dozen of needles into Charlotte’s

purplish-black toxic blood started flowing out slowly from the pressure

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