Their gazes met in midair, and she responded with a faint smile before turning away to continue enjoying her dinner.
She was very hungry, too hungry, as she needed the strength to fight the poison in her body!
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In the following days, Emily Walker received weekly treatments from Doctor Gavin, which were extremely painful and bone-chilling. However, the thought of survival ultimately allowed her to endure it!
Because she must live, she had to live.
The treatments were scheduled on Saturdays, and on those days, the women of the Stuart household would leave. Emily also instructed her parents not to visit on these days, so it was just the Baron, Zachary Stuart, and Doctor Gavin in the house other than the servants and the housekeeper.
As the amount of poison in her body decreased, Emily's pain was lessened after the first two treatments, which brought considerable relief to Angela Reid and Vivian Ferguson.