The room fell quiet again, and everyone looked at Frederick Thorne in confusion.
Frederick Thorne appeared calm, but his tightly clenched fists betrayed the turmoil within. He tucked the packets of medicine into his bag and said, "I'll have this medicine tested."
He had an old classmate who worked at the county hospital. When he had a free moment, he would make a trip to the county seat and ask his old classmate to help test the medicine. If it really was problematic, he would never let Phoenix Golding off the hook. He was certain she was the one pulling the strings from behind. Linden's mother had neither the guts nor the cunning for something like this; she always did whatever her daughter told her.
