Claire POV
I sank down into a chair, horrified.
“Poisoned??” I whispered. “But...how?”
Amelia shook her head. “It’s a notoriously difficult poison to detect. Is it possible you might have missed it on your initial exam?”
“I…maybe? I just don’t know. Are they sure that’s what it is?”
She nodded, glancing down at the lab report. “And once they knew what they were looking for, they tested all the other patients who have fallen ill over the last few days.”
I closed my eyes, already knowing what she was going to say. “And it’s in all of them, isn’t it?”
Her face was grim as she came around the desk to crouch beside me.
“Yes,” she said. “Every single one of them. Claire.” She took my hand. “Someone’s been poisoning your patients.”
“But how?? I’m the only thing
