Chapter 50: Didn’t you hear her...

Vera gasped for breathe as the weight of the situation crashed down on her, she stared at the faces before her gloomily.

The silent, piercing stares of her family members boring into her, their expressions and their faces scrunched at varying degrees ranging from shock to disgust - judging her actions, naivety, shame and disgrace they might think she had brought on them.

It’s not a secret, the sort of scheme that goes on in this family but then —being caught in the act is way more embarrassing and humiliating yet she had been caught—trapped in her own scheme, exposed in the most humiliating way possible.

This dinner had been her undoing and it was Jessica... A girl from the countryside. She isn’t reconciled with this result.

As if on cue, the drug reactions kicked in with force, her hands trembled violently, her struggle to stand up ended up in humiliation as her legs buckled again as a sharp pang of pain shot through her stomach, as though she is stabbed with several swords at the same time.

Beads of sweat formed on her already damp forehead as dizziness clouded her vision. Her lips parted as if to say something, but no words came—just a soft, strangled gasp of pain.

With a thud, Vera collapsed onto the cold tiled floor before anybody could react. She has passed out. The atmosphere became chaotic and tense.

"Vera!" Aaron sprinted forward with speed , crouching beside her and gripping her shoulders. He shook her lightly, but her eyes fluttered, barely able to focus.

"What’s wrong with her?" Pamela asked in alarm, stepping back in fear. Though, she isn’t in good terms with Vera she didn’t want her dead.

"A failed scheme," Davis answered, his voice devoid of concern.

His words sent a shiver through the room.

toward him, disbelief flashing in

Jessica’s drink?" Davis continued, eyes locked on Vera’s trembling form, his face expressionless

for the woman who couldn’t take a glance back at him before

her the orange she prepared for her while toaking the lemonade from her? Davis queried with a cold tone. He couldn’t help wondering

everyone had witnessed the exchange but nobody

jaw tightened as the scene of Jessica playing him over a bottle of gin surfaced in

doubt about the incidence but it seems this girl isn’t naïve as he thought. She is an

body which had suffered greatly from the effects of the drug, a sigh escaped his lips. How happy I would have been if she is the one suffering from this

rested on Vera as several thoughts crossed his mind on the possible reasons she took that

Is it because of Davis?" He mused while casting a subtle glance at the man on the

prove to Davis that he is a failure but Vera had no reason to except

to believe this reason—He didn’t expect that after Davis wakes up even

coming out almost

the family doctor over and instructed everyone to go over to the living

behind, Jessica stood beside Davis and Aaron crouched on the floor beside Vera glaring coldly at Jessica "Are you satisfied

see one fall into their

is not a saint and wouldn’t feel sorry for anyone that brought pains on himself in the course of plotting against

should be happy but be careful

on

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