“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.

right away and see if there’s something

back, ‘Great, thanks!”

doctor went back to the ER to

over the sample to the doctor, both

heading to the hospital, Xenia had ordered the house staff to clean up all

juice on a napkin and bring it to

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

at the mother-daughter duo, recalling how Xenia kept

juice! If something happens to Eyran because of this, it won’t just be swept

more unsettled after Balfour’s warning

if others suspect me, but how could you?

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