“I didn’t understand a word of that,” Francesca said impatiently. “My snake bit him while he was in the middle of drawing blood. As the poison did not enter into the bloodstream right away, I assume that it wouldn’t show up in his toxicology report.”

“That’s not important.” Zachary waved a hand impatiently. “Didn’t you say that the symptoms will appear tonight? Will he die?”

“No, he wouldn’t. As members of the medical profession, we have a code of conduct to save lives, not end them. Otherwise, I would have done away with him the day your house was set on fire. Eliminate loose ends, you know.”

“What will the symptoms be?” Zachary persisted.

“It’ll look like the flu at first, then as it gets worse, it’ll…” Francesca’s eyes narrowed with suspicion all of a sudden. “Why do you ask?”

a number,

“Pay me first!”

phone to her ear. “What? Chris took a blood test,

“I had him watched closely. The

he had been poisoned. It’s the only way that Spencer would be able to see that he’s a fraud. I did that to drive a wedge between him and

happened,” Raina said. “I had thought that

and got himself tested. He must have let him go to let Chris see for himself. My instigation has failed, it

Raina said mysteriously. “What if

mean?”

clinic,” Raina said carefully, “and had their snake give him a

that be Francesco?” Charlotte

merely coughed in

contacted you?” Charlotte

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