#Chapter 266: The Tests

Ella’s POV I arrived at the little Victorian house right on time. Tony was waiting for me on the front steps, seemingly pacing when I showed up, and grinned when he saw me coming. “Ella! You made it!” he said, opening the door for me. “Come in, come in. We can get started on your tests right away.” I let him take my coat and crouched to scratch the fat tabby cat’s ears while he hung it in the hallway closet. “What will the tests entail today?” I asked, both curious and admittedly a little nervous. “Nothing too invasive, I assure you.” Tony led me to the stairs leading to the lab in the basement. “Anthony is just calibrating the machines. Today will be purely preliminary testing, so we’ll be running lots of scans, taking blood samples, that sort of things.” “Don’t forget the urine sample!” Anthony’s muffled voice called up from the basement. “Oh! Right.” Tony turned around and opened a cabinet, retrieving a little plastic container and some individual