The Beginning Of All Sins

Chapter 4

Tyler sat down beside the bed, looking gentle. “Are you feeling better? Would you like to eat an apple?”

Naomi shook her head while lying in bed. “I feel terrible. I don’t have any appetite.” Then, she called out eagerly to the person at the door. “Come in, Olivia.”

Olivia watched everything happening in the room as she entered slowly. It felt quiet and strange inside. Her palms wouldn’t stop sweating, while Tyler seemed much more at ease. He tucked Naomi

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Naomi asked, “What would you like to eat, Olivia?”

Glancing at Naomi and seeing her seeming normal, Olivia realized she was the only one feeling strange. She made an effort to chase away the odd feeling and answered as naturally as possible.”

Anything.”

Naomi smiled upon hearing that and said to Tyler in a coquettish tone, “Go wash the grapes, Tyler.

Olivia loves them.”

He replied, “Sure.” He didn’t want to interrupt the sisters and removed his hand from Naomi’s to head to the ward’s pantry.

continued standing there. Naomi waved at

Even though they lived in the same house, they hardly spoke to each other. It felt strange to Olivia, but she was a

“How’s school?”

“Not bad.” She looked down, appearing reluctant to

nurse arrived at that moment. Naomi told her, “Get Olivia a glass of

then went to the fridge to fetch the

cautious as she sat there, keeping

Unfortunately, she was careless and failed to

milk, and

apologized, saying, “I’m sorry, Ms. Olivia.

her hand and said, “It’s my fault for not grabbing it

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when

froze as she

forearm beneath

throug his fingers, and his slender fingers brushed over the clear grapes, with water droplets dripping from them. It was strange that what came to Olivia’s mind was him holding

and she felt panicked,

noticed her at the door and

of her denim pants and replied very