“She got food poisoning, but it’s very light. I’ve already treated her. She ought to have a good rest this week, and she’ll recover very soon.”

Cordelia gasped. “Food poisoning?”

“It’s my fault.” Zephyr looked at her. “Cordelia… I didn’t let you drink the soup in the morning because I suspected that Aunt Helen drugged it.”

Cordelia sucked in a cold breath. She knew that Zephyr would not suspect someone out of the blue or wrongly accuse an old helper loyal to him.

“I wanted to bring the soup to you, but Ginger came to the window sill looking for food, so I gave it a bowl too.

“But it went away after sniffing it.

“I got suspicious that something had been added to the soup since then.”

It was only now that Cordelia understood why he had looked worried and said strange things about how not to eat what Helen made next time…

“I went home in the afternoon and saw Helen busying about at home,” said Zephyr. “I was already suspicious of her then and thought I’d wait for her to expose herself, so when she asked why you didn’t take the soup, I told her that there’s a strange taste.

“Aunt Helen scooped some out and tasted it herself.”

pale as she listened in

poisoned the soup, she would

as well! Did that mean someone could come in and out of their house freely and even drop

could not help the chills that ran down her spine and the quickening of her heartbeat once she thought

What kind of

and could feel the tremors within

explained the doctor. “There’s an additive in the drug

before, so the poisoning played out faster. It’s fortunate that

Cordelia’s hands went cold.

fault. I was careless. And

Cordelia looked at him.

lowered like a child who had done something wrong in front of her again. He took all the blame because he knew that

lot about

his fault. This was

“We can’t avoid it when someone wants to harm

Zephyr froze.

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