Echoes of Unrequited Love

Chapter 215

Shooting the breeze really made time fly. Just as I was getting ready to leave the hospital room, my phone in the bag started buzzing.

To my surprise, it was Cecilia on the other end of the line.

I stepped away from Jason and walked down the corridor before hitting answer.

“Xaviera, you busy? Can you swing by the hospital?”

The shaky voice of Cecilia pressed against my ear; there was panic mixed with urgency in her voice.

I suddenly got a bad feeling and asked, “What’s up?”

“Just the soup,” Cecilia cautiously began, “You know, the fish soup you taught me to make? I brought it over for your aunt, she tried, but she was still not happy with the taste.” “Get Xaviera over here now!” Hilary’s angry voice suddenly cut in. “I want to ask her myself!”

Having pondered for two seconds, I roughly pieced together what had gone down.

to make soup, I already had a hunch that she’d use it to score brownie points with Hilary, but what I didn’t see coming was that

Hilary liked it, Cecilia would be showered with praise. But

I had no clue what could be wrong with the fish soup; I’d

can you

dodging this bullet, I replied softly, “Sure

I showed up at the top–notch

spacious with an expansive view, complete with huge floor–to–ceiling windows. Looking out, you could see Rivertown Bay in the distance. If you didn’t know

comfy hospital bed with

with a’look of distress, and opposite her was

low, with her eyes red–rimmed, the picture of misery. When I walked in, all three sets of eyes turned to me. I glanced at Cecilia, and she dropped

image of woe

when she saw me. She lifted her arm and said, There’s Xaviera, come here, come

eyeing the insulated jug and the soup spilled all over the table, and smiled, “Haven’t had dinner yet?”

eyes on the bowl of fish soup and

had a soup to your liking, so she asked me for advice. She put a lot of