The Baby Shift- Mississippi by Becca Fanning

Author:Becca Fanning [Fanning, Becca]
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter 6

The next morning dawned bright and far too early. Her cell phone chirped its ringtone happily, signaling an incoming call. Alice opened it without looking at the display, still more asleep than not.

“This is Kathy from the EMH Emergency Room. We’re trying to reach Alice Hampton.”

“This is she,” Alice mumbled blearily, reluctantly rubbing the sleep from her eyes.

“We found something very disturbing in your father’s lab results.”

Alice felt shock tingle through all her limbs before settling in her stomach. When had they had time to draw his labs?

“It appears he’s been suffering from arsenic poisoning. It’s probably been caused by environmental exposure, but your father had so much in his blood that he should have died. We need you to bring him back in immediately.”

“He did. Die I mean.”

There had to have been a better way to keep them from looking into this any further, but Alice had never been good at thinking under pressure. She felt sick saying the words, even knowing that they weren’t true. How much arsenic, she wondered, would it take to kill a shape-shifter? Dread pooled in her stomach as she realized that there was almost no way this had been an accident.

Alice got up and pulled on a robe before padding down the stairs and into the kitchen to pour herself some coffee. She half listened and mumbled responses as Kathy offered her sympathy, but quickly tuned in again when the other woman started talking about looking into the cause of her father’s poisoning.

“—with an amount this high, it really isn’t safe to ignore this without requesting that someone check out the area around his home.”

“I doubt that’s the source, to be honest. Me and my two-year-old son have lived here with him for my son’s whole life,” another lie, but did the smaller ones really matter after you’d lied about someone’s death?

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