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.

to Zachary and the kids over the phone every night. The kids would share with her all the interesting things that

to. The latter, too, had not mentioned the

job at keeping

other day. When that happened, Dr. Felch would let her take

drill for another

bag full of herbal ingredients and put them

Hayley’s vegetable garden, the latter was bustling about in the kitchen,

kitchen while stealing glances at

her the usual herbal medicine, Dr. Felch asked Mrs. Berry to take Charlotte back

that Dr. Felch had prepared a herbal bath for

prepared this on Dr. Felch’s order. Help me get her into the

of the treatment?”

“Quick, we need to immerse her body in

“Alright, alright.”

stripped Charlotte down, they settled her into the

verbal instructions to Hayley about which acupoints for

a dozen

toxic blood started flowing out slowly from the

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