Chapter Three
KATE COULDN’T HELP but wonder if she had done anything to cause this. She didn’t think so, and even her uncle had said that it hadn’t been her fault. But still, she couldn’t just sit here and do nothing. She couldn’t just watch them die.
She wiped the sweat off Jamie’s face first before walking across the room to check Ewan, tucking their covers securely around them. The air in the room was stifling hot and stagnant from the boys’ protracted illness.
Kate took a quick look around. The fact that the room was neat with all of the toys put away, broke her heart—shouting out to her just how sick her little cousins were.
She located the book of herbal remedies she’d taken from her aunt’s library. With no one to use it as a prop in a mock battle or the castle of some evil villa
