Chapter 20
I tried to get to the front door. I really did. But somehow holding onto the back of the sofa to pull myself up became slumping into the sofa and then gravity was just too strong for me to get up again.
"You know, I was so worried you wouldn't even drink the coffee," Mina said as she walked past me to the cabinet. I was slumped too low on the sofa to turn my head and see what she was doing. But she kept on talking. "I was sure you would be too suspicious of me. But I thought maybe you'd take a sip, just to be polite. So to be on the safe side, I really dosed it. I had to make that one sip count."
I heard a grunt as she straightened up from a crouch and then she was back in my line of sight, holding the naked crystal ball in one hand so casually I knew she didn't truly underst
