After several attempts, her face had turned red, and Harry Hall, who had been sitting beside her, now noticed something was off about her.
Especially when he saw the tears in the Eye Corner, her cheeks a faint red, her hand on her throat, she looked very uncomfortable.
A sense of anxiety instinctually tightened around his heart, and his hand gripping the chopsticks involuntarily tightened as well.
His gaze uncontrollably rested on Helen Melendy's face, and he finally couldn't resist asking, "What's wrong with you?"
When Harry questioned her, everyone at the table turned their attention to her, making Helen, whose face was already flushed, turn even redder.
She hadn't wanted anyone to know that she got choked by a fishbone while eating and had been trying to dislodge it silently. But Harry's question now directed everyone's attention toward her.
