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Chapter 5 - The Laboratory Receipts

Victoria grabbed Lorenzo’s lapels, her eyes filled with desperate, frantic tears. "Lorenzo, please! Look at me! I love you! I’ve been by your side for two years! You're going to take the word of a thirty-dollar-an-hour night nurse over your future wife?!"

Lorenzo gently, coldly unclasped her fingers from his jacket, stepping back as if her touch burned him.

"Marco," Lorenzo called out to his head of security standing near the nursery archway. "Search her private suite."

"Already done, boss," Marco replied, stepping into the nursery holding a sealed plastic evidence bag. Inside the bag were three empty glass ampoules labeled Potassium Chloride - Concentrated along with a receipt from an offshore chemical supply company.

The receipt bore Victoria’s maiden name and private credit card number, dated four days prior.

Dr. Crane fell to his knees on the hardwood floor, sobbing uncontrollably. "She paid me two hundred thousand dollars to stay quiet! She said she would tell you I was misdiagnosing the baby if I didn't let her swap the nursery bottles!"

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Victoria screamed, turning around to smash her glass slipper against the nursery window, but two burly guards instantly seized her arms, pinning her against the wall before she could move an inch.

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