Chapter 226

• "She doesn't want to eat, I've only seen her chew on some fruit, but she leaves them halfway and they rot next to her bed," Charlotte's grandmother whispers on the porch. "She only sleeps, and when she wakes up, she looks out the window at the river flowing. It's a beautiful view, but she spends hours and hours watching it. She doesn't speak either."
• Sebastian has gone to see her countless times and always gets the same response from Charlotte's maternal grandmother, who has dark circles, a tired look, and red eyes from crying over her deceased daughter.
• "I've talked to psychologists, but she doesn't want to talk when they visit her. I also have to avoid the press, who won't stop hounding us. This is so..." the woman's voice breaks as she brings her fist to her lips and holds back a sob, "so heartbreaking that they didn't deserve that ending. My little one... me..."