Trust me

Chapter 55

Jasmine

A part of me was very skeptical when Hardin had said that he was going into the woods to get herbs for my mother because with the way he and his aunt, Lisa hated us so much, I would have thought that he would be happy with the turn out of events.

Lisa had also not been in the house since this morning and I wondered what she would think if she came in and saw that my mother was sick.

Hardin's face had been the complete opposite of happy after he walked in and saw my mother. Like he had seen this kind of thing before. And when he confirmed it and I went to ask the pack doctor about it after Hardin left to get the herbs, the doctor had been vague and tight lipped about the issue and it made me wary because who was sick with the exact same illness like my mother that Hardin knew?

Could it perhaps have been his mother? And if that were true, were both illnesses connected? If I asked Hardin about it, would he tell me?

I didn't realize that I had dozed off on the chair