Chapter Fifty-five

“What about your coffee, Emilio?”

The maid stood with the cup on the saucer. Emilio took it from her hand.

“Of course ma'm. I'll just take this up to my room.”, He added some biscotti to the saucer.

“With these too. Thank you ma'am. The breakfast was splendid”

Emilio went up the stairs with the saucer in hand and Maria felt defeated immediately. She knew he wouldn't take it. Her mood changed instantly. She rose, dropping her napkin horridly on the table.

“Anything the matter, Maria?”

“Of course not. I simply lost appetite”. She shifted her chair back and left the dining table, marching up the stairs.

In his room, Asher poured the liquid in the sink. He'd asked Garfy to take a sample and test it and just as he suspected - Maria had put something inside. There had been millk obviously but not the kind he was lethally allergic though still intolerant. Apart from the milk, the machine had detected traces of grinded sesame seeds- another substance he was deathly allergic to. He placed the
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