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

between us, thick

sighed, rubbing a hand down his face.

before Levi turned to the

me.

my vision blurring with exhaustion and frustration. "You're making a mistake," I

at me. "So

clenched my fists as two guards stepped forward, ready to escort

head maid once more. She was

then-just for a

of something

hit me

be a maid. She might be an assassin dressed in a maid's clothes to carry out the plan, and now she was gone. There was no

and as I sank onto the bed, my thoughts raced. Someone had tried to kill me. And if they failed once,

"'T have to leave this place. If I don't, my dead body will

could see the worried look on my mother's face. Obviously, she knew I was right. Whoever had tried to poison me wouldn't stop. They would keep trying until

at the borders won't let you, she said with a sigh, and I panicked.

bed, thinking of ways to escape. It was better to be a rogue than to live this life of torture, but nothing came

time for dinner, and Evilly, one of the mansion staff, came and announced that dinner was ready and that the Alphas demanded

bed, 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 howled in anger, but I

and she smirked at me. There was something about her smirk-it reminded

fork, my eyes never leaving Anita. She looked too pleased with herself, as if she was enjoying

me out of

he said, nodding toward my untouched plate. "You need to

could continue causing me pain, treating me like I was crazy? So they could dismiss me again when I tried to

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

room, a

have been an omega, but she was still my mother. She wasn't

angry voice filling the air. "Why is she the one serving?

for a second before lowering her head and continuing

the wine in her glass as she smirked at me. "Oh, Olivia, don't forget where

was the silence from the triplets. Not one of them