The laughter that had started low grew louder and sharper, becoming so eerie that even her son Jayden froze in fear.
In that tense atmosphere, Joseph finally finished grinding the medicine. Trembling with anxiety, he handed Lauren a cup of water mixed with the powdered drug.
“Now you just need to make her drink this.”
At those words, Lauren’s laughter stopped instantly. She accepted the cup more elegantly and gracefully than ever and asked,
“How long after drinking it will it take for her to die?”
“Well… if she’s lost a lot of blood, it probably won’t take even thirty minutes.”
“Good.”
Lauren lightly shook the pale yellow liquid inside the cup, then sat down gently at the head of the bed.
“Come now, Roxana. Drink the medicine your dear aunt prepared for you. All your pain will disappear.”
The moment Lauren reached under Roxana’s neck and roughly pulled her…
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