The Darling of the Paranoid Tycoon by Cheryl Rice

Chapter 22 None Would Get Away

‘Soon enough, you will meet your doom,’ Nora thought.

Harriet took the chicken soup and discreetly inserted a silver needle into it while Nora wasn’t paying attention.

Once the needle was immersed in the soup, its color began to fade, confirming that the soup had indeed been poisoned.

Harriet put away the silver needle and gulped down the soup.

Nora smiled contentedly and counted the time in her mind.

Once Harriet fainted, she would take her to the back door, where the people arranged by Bessie were waiting to take Harriet to the Happy Harpers.

However, nothing happened as twenty seconds had passed.

Nora wondered if the drug was fake when Harriet spat out the soup and wrinkled her nose.

“This soup tastes awful. I don’t like it.”

“Are you messing with me?”

Nora angrily walked over and raised her hand to slap Harriet.

But Harriet grabbed her wrist.

She sneered, her voice cold and cruel.

widened her

and mockery were something she had never seen on Harriet’s face.

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felt a sharp pain behind her ear and then passed

body with her toe to make sure

a sack and put Nora in it. Avoiding the servants in the house, she

door.

been waiting

anxiously paced back and forth.

Munoz, the ship is about to

we don’t

go and hurry her up.”

decided to go and check things out.

there was a thud not

Bessie thought someone had discovered her plan.

in front of her, with a faint

the sack, assuming it contained Harriet

understand why Nora had taken the trouble of

in a

about it or notice a slim figure standing at the corner. Harriet watched her every action with

the silver needle

acupoint.