“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. “Alight, we’ll test it right away and see if there’s something

back, ‘Great, thanks!”

doctor went back to the ER to arrange the

the sample to the doctor, both Xenia and

hospital, Xenia had ordered the house staff to clean

on a napkin

do now? Once the hospital got the test results,

recalling how Xenia kept pushing Ellinor to drink the juice

serious, Xenia, I hope there’s nothing wrong with your juice! If something happens to Eyran because of this, it won’t just be swept under the rugh

unsettled

so she faked calmness, Balfour! I can understand if others suspect me,

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