Besotted novel Chapter 35

My eyes felt light and it fluttered open, only to stare at a white ceiling and sounds of people chatting.

"Sang?" I heard my name being called and looked to my side to find Caleb looking down at me with worry in his face.

"Sang are you alright now?" he asked and held my hand as I nodded. He took my hand to his mouth and kissed it softly. I saw his eyes were red as if he was crying.

"What happened? Where am I?" I found myself asking with a croaked voice and he brought a glass of water to my mouth as he held my head and made me drink some from the glass. The chill water instantly, replenishing my dry throat.

"You are in the hospital. I brought you here after you collapsed near the door. Sang, you were poisoned. What did you do?" he asked and that instantly got my attention as I sat up not bothering about the IV drips.

"What?" I managed to say and looked around. Sure enough, I was in a hospital room and I looked at my clothes which were turned to a hospital gown.

"You were out for a day. Thankfully, the poison couldn't spread in your body because you brought to the hospital just when it started to affect you. How can this happen to you? What did you do?" he asked with worry-filled eyes and I sat there gobsmacked.

Out for a day?

Poisoned?

What did you do?

"What do you mean by what did you do?" I asked and felt my head throbbing. "Do you think that I poisoned myself knowingly?" I challenged and he just stared at me worriedly.

"No! I did not," I answered my own question when I saw his face. I made sure to enunciate each word as I told him that. "Do you think I am suicidal?" I snapped and he shook his head."No, I don't mean that. I thought perhaps you were angry and upset on me and I have stressed you to such limits that yo-"

"Nonsense! Don't talk nonsense with me. No matter what I am never going to end my own life," I shrieked and the door opened as I saw the cops entering the room.

"How are you feeling Ms. Carter?" one of them asked while the other two stood behind him. He was a tall well-built and had blue eyes as he stood there looking at me.

"I am fine, thank you for asking, officer,"

"I hope you can answer our questions. We were informed by the hospital about you being poisoned. The reports shows that you were given arsenic as a slow poison but with a high dose," he forwarded a report and Caleb stood up taking it from him.

"Can you tell us who gave you this and why?" the cop asked as Caleb looked down at me.

"I don't know. I mean why would anyone give poison to me? I don't even have enemies. I hardly know anyone," I said not believing that I was poisoned.

"In that case, did you intake it on your own?" he asked and I shook my head no immediately.

"No! Not at all. Why would I?" I said and the cop sighed as he looked back at his colleagues and then back at Caleb.

"Who are you?" he asked and Caleb faced him.

"I am Caleb Theller. I was the one who saw her collapsing near the door and I brought her here," he told the cop.

"Where was she?"

"She was in her apartment,"

"What were you doing in her apartment? What relation do you have with Ms. Carter?" the cop looked suspicious and I felt my heartbeat raising thinking that they are going to suspect Caleb for something that he had not done.