One thing was clear to Valentine.
Lilliane was not the same individual she’d been a month back. Gracious, she still had the same brown hair, and she still wore the same clothes.
But her compulsion to candies was gone. Vanished. As was her small sister’s fervor for life.
Lil collapsed on the love seat as before long as they strolled into the cabin, and past investing a small as well long in the lavatory, she hadn’t truly moved from the couch.
“Are you hungry?” Val inquired. “I can make you a few mac ’n cheese.” More often than not, that prospect would have been sufficient to make Lil hop to her feet and offer assistance out with the dinner prep.
“Not hungry” was Lilliane’s as it were reaction as she turned to confront the back of the sofa with her eyes screwed shut.
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