In the car, leaving the old Dashiell estate, Lizetta slightly lifted her head from beneath the blanket. "Something wrong? Need some water?" Yolanda immediately grasped Lizetta's hand with concern.

With a slight smile, Lizetta gestured for help to sit up a bit more.

Yolanda carefully propped her up, treating her as delicately as one would a porcelain doll, while Mrs. Bernice Madden, sitting beside them, busied herself wrapping Lizetta snugly in the blanket again. Once semi-upright, Lizetta turned her gaze to Jerome in the driver's seat.

Noticing her movements, Jerome had already slowed the car, keeping watch through the rearview mirror.

Their eyes met in the mirror, Jerome waiting silently for her to speak.

"Could you please take me to Skyline Hospital? I had already arranged with my senior to be admitted there."

significant blood loss, the doctors were concerned about potential complications due to the large transfusion. They advised that Lizetta stay in the

Bernice Madden to leave the Dashiell estate behind swiftly, she wasn't actually related to

she spoke, Mrs. Bernice Madden's eyes welled up, clutching

me again? You promised," she pleaded, her

Bernice Madden on the verge of

hospital when I'm sick. Once I'm better, I promise to come

doctor come to

a detail Mrs. Bernice Madden remembered all too well. Lizetta shook her head, "It won't happen this time. I promise to stay put in

she looked towards

How would it look if we just dropped you

with

she had left the Dashiell estate

her staying with the Maddens for her recovery was still a question. Lizetta hadn't forgotten that the Maddens had

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