Is the man she likes really someone who would abandon his wife and mother for her, give up responsibility and commitment...?
Angela Summer sometimes wonders about this too.
...
"Lie down, don't move."
Early in the morning, Aldana Candi came over to apply scar-removal ointment to Philip Shaw's gunshot wound.
The ointment had a strong, bitter traditional medicine smell. She had painstakingly ground herbs using a medical book. It was very effective, but Philip Shaw didn't want to use it, claiming it was too smelly and pungent.
But now he was under Aldana Candi's care, and there was no room for him to say "no". Every day, before he was fully awake, Aldana would get up and apply the ground herbal paste to him, claiming it was most effective in the morning for promoting new skin, relieving itching, and even beautifying.
