Helio Danae moved swiftly around the table, distributing copies of the receipt. It documented Anna—Eleanor’s personal assistant, purchasing a rare and extremely potent poison. From what our sources had uncovered, this particular substance killed slowly and insidiously. In weaker werewolves it could take months; in stronger years,. It eroded the victim from within without ever raising immediate alarm. The first signs were persistent headaches, followed by crushing fatigue as it quietly devoured the internal organs. Those were exactly the symptoms Julio had complained of in his final weeks, right up until the night he collapsed and died mid-act with one of his mistresses. The autopsy left no room for doubt: Julio had been poisoned with this exact substance. And the receipts proved Anna ha

