Chapter 7 - Venom in the NestFour hours later, inside Ethan’s unmarked sedan parked in a quiet alley, the lab results arrived on Ethan's encrypted tablet.
"It’s Digoxin combined with a synthetic neurotoxin," Ethan explained, pointing to the chemical red flags on the screen. "In small doses over forty-eight hours, it induces acute cardiac arrest that mimics severe preeclampsia. No standard coroner would question it in an eight-month pregnant woman."
Clara stared out the rainy windshield, her pulse racing. "He’s timing it for the birth."
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"There’s more," Ethan said grimly, pulling up a secondary financial file. "Two years ago, before your father suffered his fatal heart attack... Julian bought a shell company in the Cayman Islands jointly registered with Victoria Vance."
Clara’s heart dropped. "My father didn't die of natural causes either. Julian cleared his path to the Sterling fortune long before he married me."
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