Keira glanced over at Lewis, and then both looked at Erin. Erin shrugged and sighed. "Fine, fine, I'll be honest—I don't actually have any medicine!"

Gavin and Selena just stared at her, dumbfounded.

Erin popped one of the pills she'd taken out earlier into her mouth, chewing like it was candy. "These? They're beef jerky pellets. Honestly, that other stuff looked like vitamins, so I decided to mess with you."

She batted her eyes innocently.

Selena's expression shifted to pure rage.

She'd told herself she wasn't afraid of death, hoping that by confessing her sins, Erin might take pity on her and hand over the medicine. But now? It turned out Erin had been lying the whole time!

"You tricked me! You liar!" Selena screamed and lunged forward, her hands reaching as if to grab Erin.

Before Erin could react, Charles quickly stepped in between them, blocking Selena's path. "What do you think you're doing? You've done nothing but hurt people and now you want to blame someone else? Don't even think about touching Erin!"

Hiding behind Charles, Erin stuck out her tongue at Selena. "Serves you right! What's wrong with messing with you after you tried to manipulate everyone? Besides, if you'd taken your actual meds on time, you wouldn't be in this mess!"

Selena's face twisted in fury. "If I'm going down, I'm taking you with me!"

As she screamed, she suddenly coughed up a mouthful of dark blood and collapsed to the floor, gasping for breath and unable to speak.

Erin stepped out from behind Charles, raising her hands in innocence. "Don't look at me when you're haunting people. I'm as innocent as it gets!"

Then she patted Charles on the arm. "Charlie, I'm scared."

table with

don't want her blood getting on the

nodded, "I'll protect

carefully placed himself between

others just stared in

and Erin acted like they hadn't done anything unusual. Erin simply returned to the table, grabbed a drumstick, and munched

"As long as you're

anger, unable to form words as blood filled

back,

shoulder. "This whole thing... it's

weak smile on his lips. "I know, Ryan.

couldn't see the truth until now. Everything that had happened to her—she'd brought on herself. There was no one

a deep breath, bent down, and lifted her in his arms. "Come on. I'm taking you to

he carried her

soon returned to calm. The Hortons' housekeeper swiftly had the cleaning crew wipe up the blood, but there was still a faint lingering scent in the

nobody felt much like

who happily

couldn't help but gawk at her. "Seriously?

blinked at him innocently. "What's the big deal? Trust me, I've eaten beside a dead body before—when I was a doctor, mind you! With food this good, how could you even think

the food on the table,

herself. Even as much as she could eat, there was no

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