Chapter 353

Tessa had never imagined that she would one day receive a gift from Valerie. It was a small box no larger than a palm. When she opened it, she found three black pills nestled inside. Tessa blinked in confusion. "Valerie, what's this?" Valerie didn't waste time with small talk. "The herbs you gave me last time were a big help for my experiment. These pills are for your father. They might help with his heart." Tessa's eyes widened in shock. "How did you know my dad has a heart condition?" She rarely spoke about her family. Outsiders knew that she was a struggling student living on welfare, but no one really knew much about her family. The Dunns had once been a family of doctors, but somewhere along the way, their bloodline became cursed. Anyone who tried to make a living with medicine would fall ill and sometimes even die. By the time it came to Tessa's generation, only she and her father remained. She never expected Valerie, who'd only met her twice, to know so much. Valerie