'What is wrong with her?' Vernon wondered. 'I'm already in here, far from her sight, and she still eats like she's in so much pain?'
He thought it didn't make sense for her to keep acting like a weak woman when nobody was watching her right now.
Amidst his idle gaze towards her, Chloe suddenly felt sick after consuming both the ginger and pumpkin soup. She could feel the thing she just consumed go up again. She knew that she was going to puke, wasting everything that had been offered to her.
"Urk!" Chloe covered her mouth instantly, thinking she could just gulp the vomit back to her stomach, but it got worse, and she retched for the second time.
Chloe panicked and quickly got up from the chair. She accidentally tripped as she made her way to the bathroom. She fell, and the chair also fell beside her, making a loud noise in the huge penthouse.
