Angela POV
"I agree," he replies, looking back over at his house staff, "how is only a quarter of the staff affected with the same symptoms Cayden has, yet the others are as healthy as they were yesterday?"
"My thoughts exactly. But what?"
"We know Cayden is full of a previously thought extinct plant. It's killing his wolf. He's also clearly ingested a concentrated amount of wolfsbane."
"Kline Thomas, but there is no proof."
Maverick's deadpan delivery has me holding back a laugh. But no matter how the comment has lightened the mood, the atmosphere is still heavy.
"Soleil ordered the flowers?"
"Wait, let's circle back to the flowers. Assuming wolfsbane is still growing somewhere,and Cayden's ingested a liquefied version, that would mean the sourcethe plantis somewhere?"
"There is n
