Snake’s Kiss Poison, Unpaid Blood Debt

As the only person on the East Coast capable of making an antidote for "Snake's Kiss," I received an eight-million-dollar commission. Ten years ago, I'd made the very same antidote. My son, Elian, was poisoned with "Snake's Kiss" during a bloody war between rival crime families. It was the Serpent Family's signature toxin—a poison that systematically shut down the nervous system over the course of hours. Its victims remained fully conscious as their bodies slipped beyond their control, convulsing, growing colder by the minute, until they slowly suffocated to death. At the time, there was only one dose of the antidote in the entire city. When I was drowning in grief, my husband, Damiano, held me together. Night after endless night, he stayed by my side while I waited for a miracle that never came. Only later did I learn the truth. The city's only antidote had been hand-delivered by him... to save the daughter of his first love, Celeste. That girl hadn't even been truly poisoned. A blade tainted with the toxin had done nothing more than nick her fingertip. Hardly enough venom had entered her body to matter. That was the day I signed the divorce papers. I walked out of the mansion be…

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