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.

by Dr. Felch’s acupuncture treatment on her chronic health issues. She urged the doctor to expedite

answer each time he was asked, “We can’t rush it. These things take

would then sigh and

the phone every night. The kids would share with her all the interesting things that

chose to keep quiet about what Charlotte was up to. The latter, too, had not mentioned the incident that she was stalked and ambushed. There wasn’t any

at keeping a tight lid on each other’s

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

drill for another

ingredients and put them inside Charlotte’s room before he hurried out to

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

was preparing some herbal soup in the kitchen while stealing glances at Dr. Felch’s laboratory every so often in anticipation of good

herbal medicine, Dr. Felch asked Mrs. Berry to

that

explained, “I have prepared this

the treatment?”

need to immerse her

“Alright, alright.”

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

instructions to Hayley about which acupoints for

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