Chapter 4 - The Poisoner's Web
"You’ve been drugging my niece?" Ethan’s voice dropped into a low, dangerous growl that terrified every person standing within ten feet of him.
Sabrina’s face went entirely white, her eyes darting nervously toward her younger brother, Julian, who was standing near the champagne tower holding an identical silver pocket vial. "No! Ethan, listen to me! She’s a traumatized child! She’s making things up because she hates me! She doesn't want us to get married!"
Grace stepped forward, pulling a folded envelope from her apron pocket and dropping it right onto Ethan’s lap. "She’s not making up anything, Mr. Caldwell. Here are the toxicology reports from the independent lab I sent Lily's blood sample to three days ago."
Ethan snapped the envelope open with shaking fingers. His eyes scanned the medical paperwork—high concentrations of long-term neurological sedatives designed to cause memory loss, emotional numbness, and slow physical degradation.
"Why?" Ethan choked out, tears of anger welling in his eyes as he looked at the woman he was supposed to marry in less than forty-eight hours. "Why would you do this to a motherless child?"
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Grace answered for her. "Because under your brother’s trust fund, if Lily turns ten years old in good health, she inherits fifty-one percent of Caldwell Enterprises. But if she is declared mentally incapacitated before her tenth birthday..."
👉 Read on to discover who was pulling the strings behind the trust fund plot.
