Chapter 11: Heroic rescue

An elderly maid and a housekeeper were in charge of taking care of Kourtney.They have everything set up for her. From next week, she's going back to school.

At Elijah's she doesn't have to worry about her life anymore, everything is taken care of for her. But here, she wasn't happy.

Apart from her grandfather, she feels no love from other members of this family. Besides, she had a strange disease, as if she had a terrible virus in her body that would flare up now and then. Every time she gets sick, she is in pain. If she is not cured of this disease, she will probably die before the age of twenty-five.

Her mother also suffered from this disease. But she didn't know what the disease was, and she had been to hospitals for lots of tests, but no conclusions were reached. Her mother had been researching this disease during her lifetime and was said to have made a breakthrough, but all the information she had was put away by her grandfather.

She had sneaked into her grandfather's study at l