“She’s actually poisoned?” he quavered. “So she wasn’t lying!”
I once told him I had been poisoned by Laila. But Laila put on a pitiful act and claimed that I was the liar. Even my parents bought her
lie.
And Simon did, as well. He figured that since my family claimed that I was a liar, something must be wrong with my personality.
So he grew distant from me. Instead, he got closer to Laila.
Yet, Healer Petra now revealed to him that I had actually been poisoned. I had been so sick that I couldn’t live long,
While Simon was still reeling from shock, she threw in another bombshell. “Besides, she only had one kidney. Of course, she’d die if you told us to transplant it into someone else!”
“What did you say?”
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