#CHAPTER 237: Lineage (New Chapter)

Zane POV It was thallium poisoning. “The treatment is proceeding with Prussian blue, which traps thallium to keep it from being further absorbed, as well as activated charcoal and forced diuresis,” the doctor, whose name I learned was Vassles, told me. Sitting by Sarah’s bedside, I was trying hard not to look at the second bed in the semi-private ward. It had held Mavis, and now it was empty. Thallium was treatable, I had been told more than once now, but the issue was the size of the dose. Both women had just ingested too much of it for normal treatments to work. Poor Mavis had lasted barely four hours, and Sarah was unconscious, perhaps never to wake up. I had sent the girls home, much against their wishes. I asked them to go to sleep and wake up to a healthy Sarah in the morning, but they hadn’t believed me. “We’ll know more in a few hours,” Dr. Vassles told me. I nodded, and finally he left me alone with the woman who had become more to me than my own life, than anyth