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.

asked me to teach her how 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 I would have to take the

soup, and if Hilary liked it, Cecilia would be showered with

could be wrong with the fish soup; I’d have to see

can you make it?”

was no dodging this bullet, I replied softly,

I showed up

floor–to–ceiling windows. Looking out, you could see Rivertown Bay in the distance. If you didn’t

in that comfy hospital bed with a face like thunder.

a’look of distress, and opposite

picture of misery. When I

the image of woe personified.

for a moment when she saw me. She lifted

soup spilled all over the table,

after giving Cecilia a chilly glance, fixed her eyes on the bowl of fish soup and asked, “She said you

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