Could the spiritual spring water have lost its effectiveness?
Thomas frowned.
"Derek hasn't left the apartment this entire time. Logically, he shouldn't have gotten sick in the first place."
"Exactly..." Suzy murmured.
Derek had always been healthy.
More importantly, she regularly used spiritual spring water to strengthen his body. With his physical condition, catching an ordinary illness should have been extremely unlikely.
And she had already given him spiritual spring water as a precaution.
No matter how she looked at it, none of this made sense.
The hours dragged by.
Suzy remained by Derek's bedside the entire night.
The fever never broke.
By the time dawn began painting the horizon with pale silver light, she was still sitting in the same chair.
Her eyes were swollen and bloodshot.
Dark shadows hung beneath them, stark against her already pale complexion, making her look almost translucent.
She had replaced countless cooling patches.
