"Don't worry, I'm fine."

Cough, cough, cough.

"I'll head out to buy you some medicine," Betty Starmount offered and then quickly stood up and ran outside without even putting her coat on.

Her feet were still bare.

As soon as she stepped outside, tears streamed down her face uncontrollably.

It was still snowing as she peered up at the sky. Her crying intensified, the sensation of pain in her abdomen was overwhelming.

She placed one hand over her stomach and knelt on the ground, her body curled up against the frozen ground in the courtyard. There wasn't a single maid around.

Just like that, she lied on the ground and allowed snow to fall over her.

After a long while, she slowly crawled her way up to enter her luxury car and drove away.

***

The next morning, Xyla Quest and Stanley Batton got into their car, hand-in-hand, after waking up.

and it only stopped a while ago, making it appear as if the world was adorned in

were all busy

The atmosphere seemed lively.

on the engine and drove toward the Quest

seat and gazed at the

Quest family's house, the maids

busy out in the

sending it flying in

roof had already become frozen,

was a

Stanley held each others' hands as they got out

outside, it was warm

living room to

from the cold yet, still coughing

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Xyla saw this, she sat

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