JASON
For several seconds, I could only stare at Alice. Her words kept replaying in my head.
It was supposed to be Faye.
I had come into this room expecting answers. I had expected denial, excuses, perhaps even another lie. In fact, a part of me had hoped I was wrong.
I had not expected her to admit that she had actually poisoned the food.
My jaw tightened.
“Alice, have you lost your mind?”
Alice flinched at the question, but I barely noticed.
“How could you even come up with something that stupid?”
There were so many things wrong with what she had done that I didn't even know where to begin. She had not simply acted out of anger in the heat of the moment. She had gone to the kitchen, interfered with food, and deliberately put something poisonous into it because she wanted to hurt
