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.

never noticed anything off before?”

Ms. Clara mentioned the practitioner was recommended by you, I assumed everything would be alright, so I never questioned the tea she drank.”

too. She trusted him so completely back then, heeding his every word without a shadow of a doubt. She likely never once suspected the tea she

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

Dawson. “Dig up everything on the herbalist who treated Clara, get the prescriptions he wrote for her, and find out who he’s been in contact with

response, lan called

rang for an eternity before Chase picked up, his voice hoarse with the weariness of a seven–hour surgery. “What’s up? Offering to buy me a drink to soothe my nerves after a marathon in the OR? Since when did you become

patience for banter and cut straight to the chase. “I need a trustworthy pharmacologist. I’ve got to

in lan’s voice, Chase dropped his joking tone..“What’s

Clara was drinking is problematic. It

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