The pregnant viper had successfully entered the master house, and the poison was already running through the vents.
By the second week following the positive test, the physical relocation was complete. Roseline’s meager belongings, the plastic basin, the faded village wrapper, and the small bag of local tubers Mama Agnes had brought, had been moved out of the exterior western quarters. They were now installed in the grand, high-volume guest suite on the upper floor of the primary mansion, situated precisely seven geometric feet from the door of the master suite.
The spatial boundary lines that had formed the legal skeleton of the original surrogacy contract were not just ignored; they were systematically treated as garbage. The upper floor, which Sandra had designated as her absolute s
