-Gina rolled her eyes, completely ignoring Helen as she whipped out her phone and called Frank.

  • Frank had just returned to Skywater Bay and was in his basement preparing to make a pill for Frida Blue to restore her meridians.

He did a double take when Gina called him out of the blue, but he answered anyway.

“Where are you right now, Frank?” she demanded.

Hearing her disrespectful tone, he replied noncommittally, “How is that any of your business?”

Gina cut to the chase right then. “You bought the Fieldens’ drakeroot, didn’t you?”

“So what?”

“Where is it? Bring it to me—the Lanes of Southstream need it urgently.”

Frank frowned.

Southstream back when she married Helen and knew that they were as rich as they were

of the family, or they would not have

actually called him just because the other family wanted the drakeroot… She really liked to stick her head up people’s butts, did

was not like the Lanes of Southstream would appreciate him if

sucker for the Lanes of Southstream, Gina.”

Gina urged impatiently—the family’s future hung in

I’m the owner, Gina? What does the drakeroot have to do with you? Why should

choked,

bolder by the day, even going so far as to

she restrained herself for her family’s sake. “This is a matter of life and death, Frank. I’ll remember your

Frank simply snickered.

Why

It’s just that you’re not getting the drakeroot now,”

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