Married a Secret Billionaire by Breaking Wave

“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.”

as she

had poisoned the soup, she would not have tasted

that mean someone could come in and out of their house

chills that ran down her spine and the quickening of her heartbeat

kind of poison

lightly and could feel the tremors within

an additive in the drug that will damage

so the poisoning played out faster.

Cordelia’s hands went cold.

fault. I was careless. And I watched Aunt Helen drink the soup

Cordelia looked at him.

the blame because he knew that she liked Helen. The latter doted on her like a mother and took good care of her when he did not have time to keep

cared a lot about

was not his fault. This was an ambush no one

softly. “We can’t

Zephyr froze.