“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?”

dial a number, will

“Pay me first!”

the phone to her ear. “What?

“I had him watched closely. The report

between him and Jesse. Last night I had even left a smudge of green dye on his brow and made him think it

happened,” Raina said. “I had thought that

that Jesse would have already found out by now that Chris went and got himself tested. He must have let him go to let Chris see for himself.

Raina said mysteriously. “What if

you mean?” Charlotte

him at the clinic,” Raina said carefully, “and had

that be Francesco?”

coughed

Francesco contacted you?” Charlotte

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