The Daughter in the Shadows (by Una Norris) novel Chapter 164

Chapter 164 Bitter Medicine

Finished

Gill yawned as he led the man inside. “You’re way too early. Ms. Taylor’s medicine isn’t ready yet.”

“What do you mean it’s not ready? Ms. Taylor placed her order a long time ago. You people really don’t take this seriously!”

Gill scoffed. “So what? If it’s not done, it’s not done. You want to take the raw herbs back and have Ms. Taylor chew on them instead?”

“You-! I’m going to tell Ms. Taylor exactly how rude you’ve been!”

Gill rolled his eyes and walked off to the pharmacy, leaving the delivery guy standing in the clinic. by himself.

Inside the pharmacy, more than a dozen clay pots were bubbling on three rows of stoves. Yunice. kept a close watch on them while flipping through a book in her hands.

Even though modern technology had made it easy for most herbal pharmacies to use machines. that could prepare entire batches at once, Yunice still preferred the traditional way–slow simmering in ceramic pots.

Gill walked in and saw her reading. “Ms. Saunders, the guy picking up the medicine is in the front hall, complaining that we’re too slow.“”

Yunice didn’t even look up. “Close the shop door in a bit. Don’t let him leave.”

Gill nodded, then added, “I heard Paul got beat up yesterday. His shirt was shredded into ribbons –covered in blood.”

Yunice gave a cold little laugh. “Serves him right.”

Gill was confused. “Didn’t the Powell family treat him like their golden child? Why turn on him. all of a sudden?”

Naturally, this was Yunice’s doing.

Paul had tried to use Moss to humiliate Yunice during the family banquet. So she used the same trick–she sent a message to Elsie, posing as Paul, inviting her to the Powell mansion.

When Paul found out, he scrambled to intercept Elsie to keep her from running into Taylor. In doing so,

he missed the banquet and ended up neglecting Taylor as well.

As luck would have it, Wyatt had just flipped a table and left Jackson fuming. All that anger had to go somewhere–and it landed squarely on Paul.

Yunice said coldly, “He poisoned Moss. A beating was the least he deserved.”

People said pets symbolized a person’s children in their astrological chart. In a way, Moss was a child Paul had raised–and he’d still been heartless enough to use the bird’s life as leverage over

her.

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That alone showed how untrustworthy he truly was.

Yumice was grateful she’d managed to extract herself from their enga

Even though Taylor got dragged into it this time. Yunice didn’t think Taylor was a bad person. If this helped her see Paul for who he really was maybe she could escape the Powell family before at was too inne

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