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."

They advised that Lizetta stay

treatment, and although she had just agreed to go home with Mrs. Bernice Madden to leave the Dashiell estate behind swiftly, she wasn't actually related to the Madden family. It

Bernice Madden's eyes welled up,

me again? You promised," she pleaded, her voice cracking.

seeing Mrs. Bernice Madden on the verge of tears, quickly reassured her with a

I'm sick. Once I'm better, I promise to come home,

come to the house! You're just making excuses. Last time,

hospital room by Remington, a detail Mrs. Bernice Madden remembered all too well. Lizetta shook her head, "It won't happen this time. I promise to

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with embarrassment and

time, probably didn't even know she had left the Dashiell estate with Mrs.

the Maddens for her recovery was still a question. Lizetta hadn't forgotten that the Maddens had another family member,

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