The next day Sharon finds herself alone with just Max somewhere off in the house. The servants aren't obvious in their avoidance of her, but they very much do make themselves scarce. 

Sharon had received a phone call from Delaney. Apparently her brothers had forced her to take a day off. She had called and asked Sharon if she would like to get together. Sharon was more than a little excited at the thought of getting together with her possible friend. She had really liked Delaney in school.

Being lost in her thoughts she doesn't hear the doorbell sound nor does she hear the butler, Jameson, open the door and bring Delaney in.

It is the butler's voice that makes her give a small jump as it brings her out of her thoughts. "Could you bring us something to drink, Jameson? I'd like a water, Delaney what would you like?"

"Juice if you have it, preferably  grape or apple."

"Very good, that will be out shortly." Jameson tells them as he leaves and instructs one of the maids to get the drinks out.

Some of the maids are in the kitchen talking while they are on break. One stops long enough to answer the knock that is at the back door. She hugs the female that is there and moves to let her in about the same time as Jameson comes in to give the order and who it's for.

Some of the maids get nasty looks on their faces. The female that was just let in gets a look of delight and volunteers to help her friend get the drinks together.

The friend reluctantly nods as she gets a small tray out for the two bottles. Unnoticed by any of the others in the room the female takes a small syringe out and uses it in the bottled water. She smirks as she takes the bottles to the tray her friend is now holding. She'll dump the used syringe in a garbage on the other side of the city.

Once her friend leaves to serve the drinks the welcomed female slips out unnoticed from the kitchen. She just makes it to the bus stop two blocks away shortly before the bus pulls up. Only once she boards the bus and finds a seat does she relax and smirk at a job well done. She doesn't care about the fallout to her friend at what she did to that bitch that thinks she's better than them.

She gets off at her stop and hurries to her place and grabs her bags that she packed earlier. Then takes a taxi to the airport. In two hours she'll be airborne to a country that won't be able to extradite her.

Sharon and Delaney are talking animatedly while the servants are getting their drinks. "So did you talk to your boyfriend about allowing Z to date you?

Delaney smirks, "Yeah, after I showed him a photo of Z he was more than a little willing to have me date him. Wants me to ask Z if he'd be willing to have a threesome." Delaney stops and looks at Sharon and bites her lip. "Do you think he might be open to the idea?"

Sharon smirks, "Not sure completely, but wouldn't be surprised in the least if he would be willing. However, that is something I DON'T want to know ever. I have no desire to hear about others and their sexploits, especially my brothers."

Delaney smirks and assures Sharon that she won't give any details.

The maid comes in and serves their bottles of water and juice before leaving just as silently as she came. "Not a talkative bunch." Delaney observes as she unscrews the lid.

Sharon sniffs. "Darrin at least has had to reprimand the butler already and warned him about ignoring or being rude to me."

Sharon takes a drink of her water and shortly after Lawrence is announced and shown into the room. Sharon stands and smiles as she puts the cap back on the water. "Lawrence, what brings you out here?"

Sharon doesn't hear his reply since her world turns black.

Delaney just manages to catch her before she hits her head on the coffee table that's in front of the sofa.

"Sharon?" Delaney questions shaking her after placing her gently on the floor. No response so she checks Sharon's pulse.

"Shit, Mr. Shoemaker, can you call for an ambulance?" Delaney asks even as she spies Max coming into the room.

"Shit! What the hell happened to Sharon?" Max had more or less fallen in love, of a sibling after meeting her the day before. He also knows that Darrin is going to go ballistic if anything is wrong with his baby sister.

"She was fine, we were talking no problems. Then she drinks some of the water that was brought to her and Mr. Shoemaker is announced. She stands to welcome him and then faints. Max, can you get a hold of one of the brothers? I'm sure that they will want to know about this ASAP?"

"Yes, we need an ambulance to the Northrup estate," then Lawrence gives them the address. "Is she breathing?" Lawrence relays the question to Delaney.

"Yes, but it's shallow and irregular. Her heart beat is weak and thready. She is clammy to the touch." Delaney gives the information that she thinks they should know. "Don't forget to mention that she is almost four months pregnant."

Lawrence nods to show that he heard her. Delaney continues to monitor her friend's condition even as she picks up her phone and does something to get the security videos for the house. She rewinds to the kitchen to the time the butler takes the order in. Noticing the female and what she's doing she stills the frame and shows it to Max knowing he lives there.

"Who is she?"

Max gets a look of confusion on his face, "I've never seen her before. She doesn't work here."

With that Delaney goes to rewind the surveillance video back further.

Just then Sharon stops breathing. Delaney drops her phone and checks her pulse. No longer finding it she calls Lawrence over.

Lawrence immediately starts the emergency breathing. Max nods and comes over pushing Delaney over. "Darrin wants you to find out who the hell fucked his sister over once again." Max starts chest compressions  with Lawrence doing the breaths.

That's all Delaney needs to get back to her search. "Max, who is this?" Delaney demands even as he takes a break while Lawrence does the breaths."

"That's Phyllis, she's the downstairs maid for this part of the house."

Delaney calls the security and has them detain Phyllis.

Just as she finishes they hear a helicopter approaching the house.

"That should be the air ambulance to take Sharon to the hospital," Max says while Lawrence takes the breaths.

"Air ambulance?" Delaney asks confused. She had only expected to have a regular ambulance show up.

"Ambulance would take forty-five minutes or longer to get here. Darrin demanded that air ambulances be sent if medical help were necessary. Darrin and likely the other brothers will meet us there."

Just then two paramedics are shown into the room. Jameson is hiding his fear poorly at seeing Sharon white and two men working to keep her alive. He knows that all the staff will be looked at and if any of them are found to have had anything to do with this there will be hell to pay if they are lucky.

Hearing that Miss Carmicheal is pregnant shocks him. He hadn't known, none of them had known. He swallows and closes his eyes. He doesn't think this will end well for any of them.

"She was poisoned. Something was added to this." Delaney hands over the unfinished water as they prepare to take Sharon to the ambulance.  They request Lawrence to come with them since he seems to have the most information about Sharon.

"Come, Darrin will be wanting a report and will be getting angrier and angrier the longer he has to wait for the information.

Max leads a rather shocked Delaney out of the room and to his car. She shakes off the shock even as she buckles her belt. Once that was done Max excellerates as fast as he dares.

Delaney had asked about the female that had been allowed in and Lawrence had recognized her as one of Townsend employees. That had angered them all.

With that direction Delaney had been able to hack into the Townsend cameras, or rather Lawrence had given her access to his cloud account and she was able to watch. By the time they make it to the hospital she knows that Tristan Townsend had paid a good deal of money to that bitch to kill Sharon or at least the baby she carried. She also knew that Tristan had paid for a one way ticket to Vanuato.

With a little research she finds that if Phyllis's friend makes it there they won't be able to get her back to stand trial. There is no extradition treaty with Vanuato and the US.