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.

am.” She sneered, her

her eyes

something she had never seen on Harriet’s face.

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she could gather her wits, she felt a sharp pain behind her ear and then

Nora’s limp body with her

sack and put Nora in it. Avoiding

door.

been waiting there.

back

the ship

If we don’t leave now,

I’ll go and hurry her up.”

decided to go and check things

a thud not far

Bessie thought someone had discovered her

saw a large sack lying in front of her,

the sack, assuming

didn’t understand why Nora had taken the trouble of putting

a

giddy with success, she didn’t think much about it or notice a slim figure standing at the corner. Harriet

had removed the silver needle from Nora’s sleeping

acupoint.