Encore of the Avenging Muse (Sylvia and Rupert)

Chapter 408

When Sylvia woke up again, someone was standing by the bed, watching her with cold, sharp eyes.

She blinked, heart pounding, as the person's face came into focus. Instinctively, she sat up, tense and wary.

It was Fiona.

But she looked nothing like the polished, graceful Mrs. Fiona Sylvia remembered. Maybe the fall of the Carmichael family had hit her too hard-the streaks of silver in her hair, the heavy shadows under her eyes, that unmistakable air of defeat. She'd always seemed frail, but now she looked downright haunted.

Sylvia slid off the bed and took a cautious step backward. "Mrs. Fiona, what do you want?"

Fiona said nothing. She smoothed her hair, lowering herself elegantly into the chair opposite Sylvia-still carrying herself like the lady of the manor.

Once she settled, she lifted her eyelids and looked Sylvia up and down with unconcealed disdain.

"We were so close, you know," Fiona sneered. "You and Rupert-if things had gone just a little differently, you both would've been ruined for good."

Sylvia froze. Suddenly, it all made sense.

you that night,"

memories of that evening came

a seafood feast at a hotel owned by the Garcias. The Garcias threw family banquets all the time, and as

warmed up with

memory went black right after that

how she'd

accused her of drugging Rupert and

bottle-why had only

laugh. "Don't bother," she said. "There was nothing wrong with the food or the drinks. I just slipped a little something special into the dipping sauces-one for you, one for Rupert. Combined with the alcohol,

at the woman she once respected, a tide of anger and bitterness rising

I ever do to you? I never even got involved in any

softly, eyes narrowing as she

would be forced to take responsibility, and your relationship would turn him into a joke Tristan would do anything to get rid

would be left in Warren's hands. Tristan would have no one

her face draining

Stella-her whole miserable life—had been nothing but pawns in their power

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