Reborn with Nothing but My Farm and Vengeance in the Apocalypse novel Chapter 285

Chapter 285: Chapter 285: Heartless

When Ronan Rhodes told Sophie Thorne about all this, she was also quite shocked.

Sophie felt that not even this natural disaster was as insane as these people...

Seeing Melody Summers’ dumbfounded expression, Sophie Thorne gripped her hand back worriedly and cautioned, "You know, Ethan Sutton is the last of the Sutton family’s bloodline, after all. What happened to him was a huge blow to them..."

"Now that the main culprit, Raymond Hayes, is dead, the Suttons’ anger needs an outlet. Mrs. Sutton went to Rhodes and reported Simon Lancaster, which shows that the Suttons are putting the blame on the Lancaster family."

"Melody, you do have that connection with the Lancaster family, so I’m worried the Suttons might start holding a grudge against you over this. And now they’ve coincidentally moved in downstairs from you. You have to be careful!"

Looking at Sophie Thorne’s worried expression, Melody Summers slowly nodded as she processed the overwhelming amount of new information...

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The Lancaster Villa.

It might have been because she’d caught a cold while searching for fever medicine for Simon Lancaster, or perhaps she’d simply exhausted herself from having to climb onto the roof to shovel snow these past few days.

In any case, Sylvia Lancaster had been running a high fever since last night.

Sylvia lay in bed, her eyes squeezed shut and her lips cracked. A low groan escaped her throat. "Mmm... Water..."

With no heating, Sylvia’s room was freezing. Even its only source of warmth—a hot water bottle—had long since lost its heat and turned cold.

Her body was burning up, her face flushed red, and beads of sweat trickled down her forehead from time to time. Despite being under a thick quilt, she was still shivering uncontrollably from the cold.

In her feverish agony, Sylvia’s muddled mind kept returning to one thought: ’If only I had Arcadia right now...’

’If I had Arcadia, I could drink from The Arcadian Stream. Even if the stream’s water couldn’t break the fever, it would at least ease the pain...’

Just as Sylvia was lost in her fantasy, the door to her room opened.

Hearing the sound, Sylvia turned her head with some difficulty and saw Elaine Hughes standing in the doorway, frowning.

Sylvia’s eyes lit up slightly at the sight of her. She opened her mouth and said in a hoarse voice, "Mom, can you get me a glass of water...?"

Sylvia felt as if her throat was on fire. She desperately needed water, but her body was so weak she didn’t have the strength to get out of bed.

She looked at Elaine with hopeful eyes, but Elaine ignored her.

Elaine strode to Sylvia’s bedside in a few steps and snapped, "What time do you think it is? Why are you still in bed? You didn’t make breakfast, and now you plan to skive off making lunch too? Get your ass to the kitchen and cook!"

Hearing this, Sylvia stared at Elaine in disbelief.

’Cook?!’

’I feel this awful, and Mom still wants me to cook?!’

Sylvia’s voice trembled as she asked, "Mom, I... COUGH, COUGH... I have a fever... I feel terrible all over. How can I possibly cook?"

Then, she looked at Elaine hopefully again, pleading, "Mom, please just get me a glass of water first... Let me have a sip. I... COUGH, COUGH... I’m so thirsty..."

By now, Sylvia’s eyes were brimming with tears, and her voice was so raspy it sounded like sandpaper.

In the past, seeing Sylvia like this would have broken Elaine Hughes’s heart.

But now, Elaine just stared at Sylvia with a cold gaze, as if looking at a complete stranger.

She said coldly, "I don’t care if you have a fever or not. As long as you’re still breathing, you get down there and cook! Let me tell you, the Lancaster family won’t feed a freeloader!"

Meeting Elaine’s icy gaze, Sylvia felt her heart drop with a THUD, as if it had plunged straight into a deep well.

She couldn’t help but scream in her heart: ’Why is this happening?’

’Elaine used to dote on me so much. Why is she so cold to me now?’

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