the drip. "You're pregnant, so you can't have a
at her. "
eyes, the kind that made strangers look twice. The nurse's who
door closed, Iv
he city. Dominic paid for everything. W
tried to lose the baby. This time she hadn't tried
himself. He thought
e this bed. Not yet. She had to be s
t was already walk
, click. Cel
he door wide open behind her. Of course she d
ize. I made you chicken soup. Well, our cook did. But I as
id. Steam curled up
mbered t
The doctors saved Noel, barely. Miles traced it back to Vivian Shaw, Celeste's mothe
et it go. "Mom was just confused, Dom. She was tr
Celest
ed at the bowl, the
," she said. "It's got
and wet in an instant. Ho
st you throw yourself down the stairs to frame m
what I
olling. Ivy let her cry. She c
her hand. "Maybe I'm bein
tle into a ceramic bowl. "It's fresh, I pro
l and lifted it
she s
she said,
blinked.
an, prove it
u think you can scare me? Dominic doesn't believe a word you say. You know what he told me?
held out
d there was nothing in that soup
efit of the open doorway. "If that's
s. Then she set it down with a delicate clin
ps in t
ept the room: Celeste with tears on her
s goin
g to poison her. She made me taste the soup lik
t Ivy. "You're o
ifepristone in that thermos." She pres
in. "Is everyt
to the lab, please? I'd
For all I know, she's already paid off the nur
ged. "Eve
her eyes. And when she thought nobody was w
for her. Celeste was
r life that Celeste reall
a what her mother
n Ivy had never seen on his easygoing face. Celeste sat on the leather
ked at I
"Unhappy with th
fy a tox screen for anybody." He turned to Dominic, grim. "The soup
went de
No, that's impossible. There's a mistake. I didn't p
rd. He was staring at t
m and clutched his arm. "You believe m
and covered
e said lazily. "I ne
ed around and
go ask your mot
or drained out o
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