No Strings Attached

Chapter 161

Chapter 161

lan raced home, his heart hammering with a dark foreboding that gnawed at his insides.

The miscarriage Clara suffered wasn’t by her own choosing, and the thought alone tightened his chest, sending a lump to his throat.

He drove straight up to the villa’s driveway, gravel crunching under the tires. Upon his arrival, the maid hastened to greet him. “Sir, I was tidying up the cabinets when I stumbled upon some herbal tea Ms. Clara used to drink. There’s an herb in there that can cause a miscarriage if ingested by a pregnant woman.”

The icy glaze imat normally coated lan’s eyes seemed to thicken at her words. Clara often suffered from painful periods, and it was he who had sought a herbalist to help her manage. She had been drinking that herbal concoction for three months now.

Fixing his gaze upon the tea in the maid’s hand, he asked, voice grave, “What makes you so sure?”

“My grandfather was a herbalist. I picked up quite a bit about herbs while growing up, and this particular one is etched in my memory” she explained.

you never noticed anything

assumed everything would be alright, so

struck lan like a hammer blow to the heart. That’s probably what Clara thought too. She trusted him so completely back then,

fingers twitched, his lips pressed into a thin line, his eyes suffused

on the herbalist who treated Clara, get the prescriptions he wrote for her, and find out

waiting for Dawson’s response, lan

“What’s up? Offering to buy me a drink

no patience for banter and cut straight to the chase. “I need a trustworthy pharmacologist. I’ve got to analyze

lan’s voice, Chase dropped his joking tone..“What’s wrong? You found

drinking is problematic. It could lead to a

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