"If God let them show up at this moment, it means they should know the truth! I'll tell them!" Martin shouted, turning to Erica, "Do you remember the woman who knocked Mary over before, the one who was acting all weird?"
Erica just stood there, waves of fear washing over her.
On the fourth day after Erica and Larkin left the monastery, everything there was business as usual.
After Mary got up and finished morning prayers, she went to the cafeteria for breakfast. The bread baked in the cafeteria that day was exceptionally soft.
Whether it was fate or not, the chef's skills were on point that day. The bread was simply delicious.
Mary sat across from Martin, eating and chatting, "Ms. Lawrence has such bad luck, always coming when our chef is in a bad mood and missing out on this delicious bread."
Martin laughed and replied, "They wanted to adopt you, but you refused. Now they've gone, and you're still missing them. I really can't figure out what's going on in your little head."
"Of course I want to save all living beings!" Mary finished and stopped talking to Martin.
After tidying up her utensils and washing them, she put them back in her small cabinet, and then, as usual, picked up the broom to sweep the leaves that fell overnight at the entrance of the monastery.
In the past, Mary disliked sweeping the leaves at the monastery entrance the most because there were two trees there rumored to be thousands of years old.
It seemed like the leaves were endless, no matter how much she swept.
But when Erica came to the monastery with Larkin for the first time, she was sweeping leaves there.
So Mary was the first person to receive them.
Now, sweeping these leaves seemed to have a new meaning.
Mary swept the leaves, counted to three, and then turned to look at the door.
Of course, the person she wanted to see didn't appear.
But she wasn't disappointed.
Because she knew Erica would definitely come back to see her. She had promised.
One day, she would be sweeping the leaves, count to three, turn around, and see her coming.
In this anticipation, she felt that sweeping these endless leaves became somewhat fun.
She counted to three again, turned around, and someone really did walk into the monastery.
Because of the backlight, Mary could only roughly judge that it was a woman.
And her height seemed similar to Erica's.
Mary was very surprised and immediately ran over with the broom.
But after taking a couple of steps, no longer against the light, Mary could clearly see the faces of the newcomers.
Besides the woman with a height similar to Erica's, there was also a middle-aged woman in her forties or fifties.
"Ladies, hello," Mary greeted politely.
The middle-aged woman smiled and said, "Hello, we were introduced by Madeleine Winters' mother. Is there anyone in charge here?"
Mary didn't know who Madeleine was, and she was about to speak.
At this moment, other monks came over.
Mary stepped aside.
She faintly heard the middle-aged woman saying something about how she and Madeleine were sick together, hoping the monastery could help, and so on.
Mary's anticipation fell through, and she felt a bit down.
So she continued to sweep the ground with her broom, but soon she felt a bit uneasy and looked in a certain direction.
Then Mary saw the young woman brought by the middle-aged woman, staring straight at her.
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