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."

head. "I know what I

us,

rubbing a hand down

turned to the

me. Brushing me

vision blurring with exhaustion

at me. "So are

two guards stepped forward, ready to

turned, my gaze landed on the head maid once more. She was watching me carefully,

a split second—I saw

something in

hit me like

be a maid. She might be an assassin dressed

thoughts raced. Someone had tried to kill me. And if they failed once, they

said, drawing her attention. "'T have to leave this place. If I don't, my dead body

could see the worried look on my mother's face. Obviously, she knew I was right. Whoever had

she said with a sigh, and I panicked. I knew I had to do something. I had to

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

of the mansion staff, came

to the dining room, and as expected, the triplets were there-so was Anita. The moment

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

picked up my fork, my eyes never leaving Anita. She looked too pleased with herself, as if she was enjoying my suffering. My wolf growled again, but I took

Levi's voice snapped me out of my thoughts. I turned to

my untouched plate. "You need

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

take

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

been an omega, but she was still my mother. She

down, my angry voice filling the air. "Why is she the one serving? There are plenty of maids here." Silence fell over the table, thick, and

before lowering her head and continuing

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

enraged me even more was the silence from the triplets. Not one of them spoke up. Not