Discarded Housewife, Chosen by Her Protector novel · Chapter 13 of 24

Chapter 13: The Proof

The lab belonged to a community college in Hood River, and the instructor who lent it to us owed Ronan's attorney a favor.

She let me in at seven on Tuesday morning and handed me a white coat and a key.

Then she went to get coffee.

I had not stood at a bench in eight years.

My hands knew everything anyway.

I weighed June's capsule and the one from the travel bottle in my purse.

I logged both on the attorney's form, with the time and the seal numbers.

Ronan stood by the door with his arms folded and said nothing at all.

"You can sit," I said without turning around.

"I'm fine here."

"You're hovering."

"I'm guarding," he said. "It's different."

It took three hours.

I ran the capsules twice, because I wanted to be wrong.

The instrument printed the first peak, and I knew it before the second came up.

"Wolfsbane," I said. "A refined extract, and a binder that lets it out slowly over the day. Whoever made this knew what they were doing."

"Lorna," Ronan said.

"Lorna and a chemist." I pulled up Crestline's published ingredient list on the instructor's computer. "Ansel's company sells the binder to gyms. It's a normal powder for protein bars."

My voice was steady, and I was proud of that for a moment.

Then I laid the two printouts side by side.

The capsule from June was the same blend as mine, at half the dose.

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