88 He’s Here

“Keira Olsen, wake up. What’s wrong with you?”

The policewoman noticed Keira’s condition and nudged her.

Dazed, Keira opened her eyes.

The usually strong-willed woman was trembling from weakness. “Please help me to the bed.”

“Alright.”

The policewoman quickly assisted her to the bed and asked, “How do you feel now?”

Keira was in poor condition, and she wouldn’t pre even for Holly’s sake. She said, “I’m anemic. Get Ho Sims to do another blood test. It should show up no

At her words, the policewoman frowned, scrutinizing Keira. “Dr. Sims was angry. She probably won’t come

again.”

Keira pursed her lips. “Then you can draw my blood and send it for testing.”

The policewoman said, “Fine, I’ll get someone from the

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forensic department.”

Having said that, she left the cell.

As she was leaving, she was suddenly stopped by Poppy Hill, “Excuse me, Officer.”

The policewoman turned to her, “What is it?”

Poppy pointed to the ward where Keira was. “That’s my daughter. Is she unwell? Can I go look after her?”

The policewoman was taken aback. “She’s your daughter?”

Were mothers and daughters sharing prison cells these days?

Poppy nodded, “Yes, yes, that’s my daughter. You check our relationship.”

The policewoman took out her phone, logged into system, and verified their identities. They were inde mother and daughter.

The policewoman thought for a moment, recalling Keira’s condition, and said, “Alright.”

Keira, lying on the single bed, had just closed her eyes

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when the door was opened again.

Did the forensic doctor come so soon?

followed

Keira stiffened.

due to her weakness, memories of when she was

age, without enough warm clothes in winter,

Poppy would lock her away, not letting her go outside. Whenever Mrs.

medication.

moment Mrs. Olsen left, Poppy would rush over to her, grab her throat, and force her to throw

beating the defenseless five-year-old child, she furiously berated her in her ear. “You don’t deserve medicine! Just live with

this, bitch! Aren’t

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several times, and you dared to defy me, throwing me into this jail. I’ll

you…”

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huddle, just like when she was a child, wishing she could reduce herself to as small as possible to fend off the outside

being

room was dimly

from extreme dizziness caused by anemia, which made her unable to distinguish betweer reality and memory, with pleas for mercy from her dreams escaping her lips.

a five-year-old, she pleaded in a soft whisper. “Mom, I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have gotten sick. Please stop hitting

still coursed

of her still pinched her arms, abdomen,

lips together tightly.

seven, she understood that pleading was useless, and she could

The pain persisted.

“Die! Die! You killed my brother! You’ll

learned to resist, even trying to push away the woman forcefully, but she wasn’t

toleration at ten years old, eleven years

she was thirteen and had moved onto

school.

had surpassed Poppy’s height. She pushed the woman away, saying, “Since you despise me as

a few worn-out clothes and without

her in the world,

boundless.

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be her

up, and she could

eyes, waking up from her

sharply at Poppy, who was right in

her.

throat, “Bitch, what are you looking at? You should die! You have to pay

Keira grabbed Poppy’s wrist and forcefully pushed her

as she was about to

at the door.

gaze swept across Poppy and Keira,

these

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to be mother and daughter?

out on the bed again without the energy to even move

I’m anemic…even if you

and give me

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