Renee sorted Kaitlyn’s pills, then neatly placed them into a small pillbox for each day of the week. She poured warm water and prepared to remind her mother to take her medicine.

Balancing the cup and medicine, Renee approached the room’s doorway. She suddenly heard her mother’s hushed voice on the phone.

Kaitlyn spoke softly, her tone urgent and low as if she meant it that way.

“Is everything taken care of?

“What? She… hasn’t died?

“You all are a bunch of useless people!

“…I don’t care about that. Just make sure she doesn’t return to Centrolis!”

Renee’s heart skipped a beat. She struggled to catch the words beyond the door. She wasn’t sure who her mother conversed with on the phone, and the thought that her mother could utter such things was hard to accept.

Could it be a misunderstanding? It had to be!

She furrowed her brow as doubts gnawed at her. Her mother had been unwell and withdrawn for so long. How could she now command others to do such things?

within the room

individual… Watch her closely for me. Don’t

and her

“Who’s out there?”

door abruptly. Catching Renee’s wide-eyed

Renee stepped back. The cup slipped from her hand and shattered

expression darkened, her voice icy as she

trembled. “I came to give you your medicine. It’s

and noticed Renee’s bleeding foot. A piece of glass had lodged itself in her foot from the shattered

said coldly. “The first

cabinet,” Renee timidly corrected her. “Our first aid kit has always been on the

silent for a moment before softening her tone.

“Mom…”

Do you want to

up some fruits, and I’ve set up the TV

paused, then

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