"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.

snowed all night, and it only stopped a while ago,

were all busy

The atmosphere seemed lively.

on the engine and drove toward the Quest family's

Xyla leaned into her seat and gazed at

they arrived at the Quest family's house, the maids were

to be busy out

blew against the snow on the roof, sending it flying in every direction as if

on the roof had

a

Stanley held each others' hands as they got out of the car, and then entered

outside, it was

coats and walked into the living room to find Jeremy Quest reading a book on the couch.

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