Frank nodded to confirm Vicky's words. "I already refined the drakeroot when your mom called me earlier."

Helen was disappointed, but there was nothing she could do either—there was no way to revert the pill back to the drakeroot.

Still, she simply resigned herself.

She was not particularly disappointed anyway since the drakeroot was not all that important.

"Oh... Never mind, then." She flashed a pained smile.

Frank stared at her for a moment in thought for a long while and eventually said, "What's your cousin's condition? I could take a look."

"Oh, forget it. None of the Southstream's healers could help." Helen trailed off and quickly corrected herself when she realized she had misspoken. "I mean, it's very serious, and most of the healers insisted she needs the drakeroot."

Frank smiled. "I treated your grandfather when he was on death's door too. I should at least try."

Helen looked up right then, her heart welling up with emotion.

harm in letting Frank try even if he

Frank."

before her chest as she huffed,

hurt to remember

and not her family," Frank

Helen. "Where's

not take Vicky's jibe to heart, since she

said. "Let's go

as they left. "Come home

knew she could not stop Frank, and doing it would

had to know her

to Riverton City Hospital, asking while she drove, "Does Vicky

just visits on occasion," he

a long sigh of relief,

the way... My Aunt Jade is a little bad-tempered. Just try not to speak

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