The Kiss that Sparked it All

“Who’s the one wasting the doc’s time, huh?” Ellinor quipped, visibly annoyed. She grabbed Patricia by the collar and shoved her toward Xenia, “If Ms. Howard here wasn’t busy running her mouth, I’d be done talking to the doctor by now!

Patricia stumbled and fell onto Xenia, seething with anger

By the time she regained her footing and tried to interrupt Ellinor, it was too late.

Ellinor told the doctor, “Besides his usual diet, the patient also drank a beverage none of us had tasted before”

The doctor took this seriously. “What kind of drink are we talking about?”

“He downed a big glass of pomegranate juice freshly squeezed by his own mother. Doc, there’s some residue of the juice on this napkin, maybe the hospital can run some tests on it to see if there’s anything harmful

With that, Ellinor handed over the stained napkin that she had used at the Howard family’s dinner table, where she tasted and then spat out the juice.

away and see if there’s something fishy

nodded back,

the ER to arrange the test.

sample to the doctor, both Xenia

the house staff to clean up all the remaining

out the juice on a napkin and bring it to the hospital? This was just too much!

do now? Once the hospital got the test results, she couldn’t refute

at the mother-daughter duo, recalling how Xenia kept pushing Ellinor to drink the

with your juice! If something happens

felt even more unsettled after Balfour’s warning

show it, so she faked calmness, Balfour! I can understand if others suspect me, but how could you? We’re family! Byran is my son, how could I possibly harm him?’