Hannah closed her notebook. “Someone has already started one. Lucas just doesn’t know he’s the battlefield.”

Chapter 6 — The Alley

The laboratory results arrived two days later. The formula contained traces of contaminants capable of causing severe intestinal illness in an infant.

The amount was carefully measured. Lucas would not necessarily die at once. He would sicken, weaken, and perhaps suffer what doctors might describe as complications related to his difficult birth.

Hannah’s hands went cold as Dr. Bennett explained. “This was deliberate,” he said. “Someone wanted the child’s death to look natural.”

“We need the original security footage.”

“Rourke is trying to recover it.”