Jilted Heiress Strikes Back
She paused, took a deep breath, and pronounced slowly and clearly, “Have you ever heard of the most sinister poison—‘Velvet Mercy’?”
From Gale’s loss of control earlier, she had her suspicions. Now after checking his pulse, she was certain.
But “Velvet Mercy” was an extremely rare poison, very hard to implant. As its name suggests, it was the deadliest poison of all, but not concentrated or obvious at first. If carefully controlled, the early stages were nearly undetectable. But once it spread deeply into the blood and body, there was no cure.
And yet, Raina had seen it once—this poison on a child.