Lethal Vows：Married to My Rival novel · Chapter 19 of 24
Chapter 19: Fire
The uncle did not look at the doctor.
He looked at me, with the same mild pale eyes, and he laughed softly into his hand.
"A frightened old man," he said to the table. "Bought and coached by a girl from the Pit. Gentlemen, you know me. Forty years at this table."
"I have the vial," the doctor said.
He took a small brown bottle from his coat and set it on the stone floor in front of the old boss.
"This is what went into every cup. A salt of a heavy metal. The chemist at Pier Nine mixed it, and the uncle's waiter carried it."
"Planted," the uncle said.
"The date is on the label. The lab's mark is on the cap."
A boss on the left leaned forward and read the cap. He sat back, slowly, with his mouth tight.
The uncle's son had not moved. He stood with his printed page hanging from his fingers, staring at his father's folded hands.
"Father," he said, so quietly I barely heard.
"Sit down," the uncle said.
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