When Sheena discovered her mother’s headaches, she began secretly learning massage techniques during her spare time. Without access to professional instructors, she studied online tutorials instead.
She filled up four or five notebooks with detailed notes and practiced late into the night for two months straight.
To ensure her skills were effective, she tested the techniques on herself repeatedly before shyly suggesting she could help relieve her mother’s pain.
Looking at the daughter she had barely raised, Amanda couldn’t bring herself to refuse and reluctantly agreed.
By sheer luck, Sheena’s massages actually eased her mother’s headaches.
When she saw her mother’s furrowed brows relax, Sheena’s joy was beyond words.
From that day on, she faithfully massaged her mother every evening.
But two days had passed without Sheena showing up.
Suspicious, Amanda sent someone to find her.
They discovered Sheena locked in the storage room, her entire body burning with fever. By the time they carried her out, her breathing was faint and uneven, as if she were clinging to life by a thread.
Seeing Sheena lying lifelessly on the floor, curled up and pale, Amanda felt fear for the first time. She immediately ordered for her to be taken to the hospital.
Thankfully, due to the timely intervention, Sheena’s fever subsided.
When Stephen was summoned to the hospital, he was startled to the core. He never imagined things would escalate to this extent. Even now, he couldn’t quite understand why he had been so furious at the time.
Yet, when he saw the look of resentment on Sheena’s face, a chill had run down his spine.
'She’s my sister. How could she look at me like I’m her sworn enemy?' he thought.
Sheena, who had always been meek and eager to please him, circling around him like a lapdog, suddenly declared, “I will never waste another ounce of emotion on a piece of garbage like you, for anything, ever again.”
’What gave her the right to say that?' he internally muttered.
Amanda harshly reprimanded Stephen.
Jasmin hurried forward, tearfully defending her brother, “Big Brother didn’t mean it. Besides, it was Sis who made him angry first.”
“She was upset about being sent to the Wilson family and took it out on Big Brother. He’s been so distressed these past two days he hasn’t even eaten properly.”