Fated To Not Just One, But Three

Chapter 22: someone wants me dead

Chapter 22: someone wants me dead

Olivia's POV

I turned back to the triplets, my frown deepening. "She's not here:

Levi scoffed. "Of course, she's not."

Louis let out an exasperated breath. "You expect us to believe that? These are all the maids in the estate, Olivia"

"T know what I saw!" I snapped, frustration flaring in my chest. "Someone gave me the juice. If she's not here, then that means-*

"She doesn't exist, Lennox cut in, his voice laced with anger.

My frown deepened. "That's not what l was going to say."

The head maid stepped forward. "Alpha, these are all the maids currently employed in the estate. If Miss Olivia claims someone else served her, I assure you, she must be mistaken."

Mistaken?

A cold chill ran down my spine. No. I wasn't mistaken.

Lennox took a step closer to me, his voice low but biting. "Enough of this, Olivia. The healer said the poison was commonly used in suicides. There's no mystery maid, no secret culprit. Just admit it."

My hands shook with rage. "I didn't poison myself!"

"Then where is the proof?" Levi shot back. "Where is this so-called maid?"

I looked between them, my heart hammering. They didn't believe me. They were convinced I had done this to myself.

I turned to my mother, hoping-praying-that she would defend me. But she stood silently beside me, her face pale, her lips pressed together.

She didn't doubt me. But she was powerless against them.

A bitter laugh escaped me. "So that's it? You've already decided I'm lying?"

Lennox's gaze hardened. "You were the only one in the room. No one else."

my head. "I know what

us, thick with

then Lennox sighed, rubbing a hand down his

and Louis exchanged a look before Levi turned to the guards. "Take her back to her

dropped. They were dismissing me. Brushing me off like I

exhaustion and frustration. "You're making a

didn't even look at me. "So

two guards stepped forward, ready to escort me

as I turned, my gaze landed on the head maid once

then-just for a

of something in

hit me

She might not even be a maid. She might be an assassin dressed in a maid's clothes to carry out the plan, and now she

I sank onto the bed, my thoughts raced. Someone had tried to

attention. "'T have to leave this place.

on my mother's face. Obviously, she knew I was right. Whoever had tried to poison me wouldn't

know you can't leave, Olivia. The guards at the borders won't let you, she said with a sigh, and I panicked. I knew I had to do something. I had to leave this place-somehow. I had to

stayed in bed, thinking of ways to escape. It was better to be a rogue than to

for dinner, and Evilly, one of the mansion staff, came and announced that

I took the stairs to the dining room, and as expected, the triplets were there-so was Anita. The moment I saw her, my wolf

There was something about her smirk-it reminded me that I had been poisoned. I wasn't

leaving Anita. She looked too pleased with herself, as if she was enjoying my

snapped me out of my thoughts. I turned

nodding toward my untouched plate. "You need to regain

me pain, treating me like I was crazy? So they could dismiss me again when I tried to tell them someone wanted

my jaw, forcing myself to take a bite, despite how little appetite

my fork, my mother walked into the dining room, a tray in her hands, carrying

Why was she serving? There were plenty of maids in the estate. My mother may have been an omega, but she was still my mother. She wasn't supposed to be waiting on me

one serving? There are plenty of maids here." Silence fell over the table, thick, and

and continuing to pour the water as if she hadn't heard

in her glass as she smirked at me. "Oh, Olivia, don't forget where you come from. Just because you married

at her words, but what enraged me even more was the silence