Money-Minded and Plot-Aware novel · Chapter 21 of 24
Chapter 21: Who Poured It
"Search her," said the Queen.
She did not raise her voice, and nobody in the ballroom mistook it for a request.
Two of the Marshal's women took Sorrel by the arms.
She screamed that she was a saint, that she was innocent, that the Prince loved her.
They turned out her sleeves first, then the folds of the white satin.
In the lining of her bodice, tucked into a pocket someone had stitched for the purpose, was a small green glass vial.
It was half empty, and it still had a smear of syrup inside.
The woman who held it up looked at the Queen.
Hadrian took it and set it beside the red-banded cup on the Prince's own tray.
"Healer," he said.
The old woman took the stopper, sniffed it, touched a drop to a cloth and waited.
"Foxglove in honey, my lord. The same measure as the cup."
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