PFC Chapter 312 The Biggest Obstacle
Chapter 312 The Biggest Obstacle
The sunlight flickered into Lilith's eyes as the curtains fluttered. She tried to close her eyes again, but the warm sunlight did not want to let her fall asleep again and continued to greet her warmly.
Lilith tossed and turned in bed restlessly.
"Are you awake, Miss Lilith?" A familiar voice came, causing Lilith to pause.
"…It's you, Bella." Lilith opened her eyes and her voice was hoarse.
It was already the fifth day since they returned to Goletia. On the second day, Lilith, relying on her strong recovery ability, was the first to leave the infirmary and return to Taylor Manor, and then she hibernated day and night.
"You...you don't eat much, and you don't move much. Everyone is worried about you." Bella tried her best to make her tone sound more lively, hoping to infect her young lady.
"Pull the curtains, Bella." Lilith was not as energetic as usual. She turned over and curled up again.
Bella's eyes were full of worry. She hesitated again and again and actually refused the order from her boss. "Sorry, miss, I have a charcoal stove burning here. You can't close the window."
She walked to the window and opened the floor-length curtains. Sunlight poured into the room in large patches. She turned around - Miss Lilith had covered her head with the quilt.
"Ms. Lilith..." Bella was a little overwhelmed. She walked over carefully and sat down beside the bed.
"On the stove is the chicken soup that you taught me to cook. You said that people who are recovering from illness should drink chicken soup." Bella twisted her fingers. "Would you please get up and eat something, Miss Lilith? If you feel cold, I will move the stove out and close the window after you finish eating."
"Bella..." Lilith said in a nasal voice from under the quilt, "You don't have to do these things anymore..."
"I'm still your maid. Madam Melissa asked me to take good care of you." Bella said softly, "I'm sorry, is it too cold? I'll be there soon--"
"Don't say sorry, Bella, don't say sorry..." The voice from under the quilt cried even harder, and panic flashed in Bella's eyes, but now she no longer thinks like that before. Her master's anxiety would only make her more anxious, like a headless fly.
She thought about it and hugged the bulging quilt in her arms. Perhaps this was what Miss Lilith needed.
The person in her arms was quiet for a moment, and soon she heard soft sobbing coming from inside.
——Ms. Lilith can cry too, Bella sighed.
"They, they all apologized to me..." Lilith's voice came intermittently from under the quilt. "They all said that this trip was because of them. Lucas said it was because he wanted to take a boat ride, Bobby said it was because he didn't always protect his partner, and Ian, and Lulu Hannah, and..."
"Everyone is apologizing to me, but obviously, I am the one who should say sorry..." Lilith's tears could not stop falling. The sore feeling made her nose ache. She could hardly breathe, but she refused to come out for air as if to torture herself.
Everyone trusts her so much, even though she is the one who makes the final decision. She understands that everyone is taking on the responsibility again and again, hoping that she will not blame herself. The more this happens, the more she cannot face her partners.
When the teachers from the school came to the infirmary and asked everyone about their experiences one by one, she felt as if she was being tortured over and over again and was so ashamed that she could not listen to another word, so she fled the infirmary and returned home alone the next day.
"I was too self-righteous, Bella. Everyone told me I was smart and lucky, and I took it seriously. I really thought I was different from others..."
She should have been more cautious. Catherine had clearly told her that it was dangerous there, but she didn't take it seriously. They had faced all kinds of emergencies along the way, but they had always managed to escape danger. She subconsciously felt that nothing would happen this time.
Her self-righteousness cost her friend her life. The boy who followed them around all day long trying to get a piece of the credit for group work and who was laughed at by them for always hanging out with girls died quietly in the cold night. His heart was completely eaten away. Thinking of this, Lilith couldn't help but tremble all over.
"I'm so stupid, Bella, I'm so stupid..." Lilith lifted the quilt and threw herself into Bella's arms and burst into tears.
"Ms. Lilith..." Bella hugged her tightly with heartache, letting her hot tears drip into her clothes.
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"Don't act like you're dying."
With a sneer, Kanyon walked out of the shadows under the corridor and looked at his sister standing in the cold wind. "They asked me to call you to eat. Really, am I your slave?!"
Catherine turned and walked away, neither looking at him nor paying any attention to him, but walked straight past Canion in the direction of the restaurant.
"Blood awakening doesn't improve your character at all!!" Kanien shouted behind him unhappily.
The atmosphere at the Bishop family's dinner table was strange and silent.
Duke William looked at his family members with different expressions and decided to save the suffocating atmosphere. He raised his glass and said, "I didn't say anything wrong, Cynthia. Our family was reunited on Hanukkah—"
Cynthia withdrew her gaze from her daughter and looked at her husband without saying anything.
"Have you been to the laboratory?" Catherine chatted with her mother about business while eating. "Professor Warren should have told you about his discovery, right?"
"Yes." Cynthia nodded. "Compared to their earliest appearance, their fish tails are getting shorter and shorter every year, but their hind limbs are getting stronger every year. Now the void beasts are getting closer and closer to the legendary appearance. They are evolving too fast and are adapting to land."
"Look, Catherine is now becoming more and more like a qualified commander--" William smiled.
"If we transport the latest captured void beasts to Highgarden, do you think we can get more help for us?" Catherine looked at her father.
William looked at his daughter and sighed secretly - the calmer and more rational she looked, the more intense her emotions became.
"Catherine, you should know that the logic of the High Court does not work in this way..." He tried to persuade patiently.
"Everyone knows what the biggest obstacle is, but you won't be happy to hear it." Catherine's knife and fork made a harsh sound as they cut through the plate.
The restaurant was silent for a moment.
Catherine's older brother Claire began to skillfully stuff food into his mouth quickly - if he didn't eat now, he would have no chance to eat when the quarrel started.