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."

shook my head. "I know

between us, thick with

then Lennox sighed, rubbing a hand down his face. "This

look before Levi turned to the guards. "Take her back to

They were dismissing me. Brushing me off like I was

with exhaustion and frustration. "You're making a

at me. "So

guards stepped

the head maid once more. She was

for a split second—I

of something in her

me like a

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

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

leave this place. If I

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

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

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

the mansion staff, came and announced that dinner was ready and

was Anita. The moment I saw her, my wolf howled in anger, but

something about her smirk-it reminded me that I

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

snapped me out of

untouched plate. "You need to

they could continue causing me pain, treating me like I was crazy? So

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

the dining room, a tray in her hands,

in the estate. My mother may have been an omega, but she was still my mother. She wasn't supposed to be waiting on

"Why is she the one serving? There are plenty of maids here." Silence fell over the table,

mother hesitated for a second before lowering her head and continuing to

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

the silence from the triplets.