Chapter 102 A Taste of Her Own Medicine
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Caroline grabbed another container from the side. After carefully coaxing the centipede into it, she snapped the lid shut
Glaring at the monstrous insect squirming inside the clear box, Caroline cursed inwardly.
That old hag is getting more and more vicious. I can’t believe she actually resorted to using venomous insects just to hurt me!
Her eyes shifted to the pile of clothes again, and a chilling thought crossed her mind.
Wait… what if there’s more than just this one?
Still clutching the stick, she shook out the rest of the clothes using the same method.
And sure enough, centipedes started crawling out–one after another.
Caroline just stood there, stunned by the crawling swarm now darting across her bed. Watching those things skitter across the sheets made her skin crawl–it triggered every bit of her fear of creepy crawlies.
It took her a long second to gather the courage before she started catching them.
Several centipedes had started crawling at once, so she went for the ones that were easiest to catch first.
She managed to trap two, but the rest slipped under the bed where she couldn’t reach them. With no other option, she smashed them with the stick.
“Ms. Caroline, have you finished changing?”
Hearing the voice outside her door, Caroline quickly scooped up the centipede corpses and shoved the container with the live ones into a hidden corner.
Then she opened the door and pointed to the dead centipedes on the floor. “Wren, care to explain this?”
Wren glanced at her, and for a split second, a flicker of disappointment flashed across her face.
She’d heard centipede bites were excruciating. So why did Caroline look completely fine?
Had she not been bitten?
What a waste. All her effort had gone down the drain.
Steadying herself, she scoffed, “Explain what? This room is spotless. Where would centipedes even come from?”
“I’d love to know too,” Caroline said, raising her voice deliberately as she heard footsteps approaching in the hallway. “They came crawling out of the clothes you brought me. Don’t act like you don’t know anything!”
Wren was just about to argue when a sharp voice cut in from behind, “What centipedes?”
Wren turned her head and looked toward Miguel, who was standing at the door. Her expression stiffened immediately. “It’s … it’s nothing. Just a few centipedes that somehow got into the house and crawled into
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Chapter 102 A Taste of Her Own Medicine.
She lowered her gaze to the centipede corpses on the floor, her face full of feigned guilt.
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So, in the end, it had to be Caroline who compromised.
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