Fated To Not Just One But Three novel Chapter 22

Olivia's POV

I turned back to the triplets, my frown deepening. "She's not here:

Levi scoffed. "Of course, she's not."

Louis let out an exasperated breath. "You expect us to believe that? These are all the maids in the estate, Olivia"

"T know what I saw!" I snapped, frustration flaring in my chest. "Someone gave me the juice. If she's not here, then that means-*

"She doesn't exist, Lennox cut in, his voice laced with anger.

My frown deepened. "That's not what l was going to say."

The head maid stepped forward. "Alpha, these are all the maids currently employed in the estate. If Miss Olivia claims someone else served her, I assure you, she must be mistaken."

Mistaken?

A cold chill ran down my spine. No. I wasn't mistaken.

Lennox took a step closer to me, his voice low but biting. "Enough of this, Olivia. The healer said the poison was commonly used in suicides. There's no mystery maid, no secret culprit. Just admit it."

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My hands shook with rage. "I didn't poison myself!"

"Then where is the proof?" Levi shot back. "Where is this so-called maid?"

I looked between them, my heart hammering. They didn't believe me. They were convinced I had done this to myself.

I turned to my mother, hoping-praying-that she would defend me. But she stood silently beside me, her face pale, her lips pressed together.

She didn't doubt me. But she was powerless against them.

A bitter laugh escaped me. "So that's it? You've already decided I'm lying?"

Lennox's gaze hardened. "You were the only one in the room. No one else."

I shook my head. "I know what I saw."

Silence stretched between us, thick with tension.

And then Lennox sighed, rubbing a hand down his face. "This is pointless."

Levi and Louis exchanged a look before Levi turned to the guards. "Take her back to her room. She's still weak:

My stomach dropped. They were dismissing me. Brushing me off like I was nothing.

I glared at them, my vision blurring with exhaustion and frustration. "You're making a mistake," I muttered.

Lennox didn't even look at me. "So are you."

I clenched my fists as two guards stepped forward, ready to escort me back.

But as I turned, my gaze landed on the head maid once more. She was watching me carefully, her expression unreadable.

And then-just for a split second—I saw it.

The flicker of something in her eyes.

Realization hit me like a thunderbolt.

The maid who poisoned me-the head maid knew who she was. She might not even be a maid. She might be an assassin dressed in a maid's clothes to carry out the plan, and now she was gone. There was no way I would find her.

My mother took me back to my room, and as I sank onto the bed, my thoughts raced. Someone had tried to kill me. And if they failed once, they would try again.

"Mother, I said, drawing her attention. "'T have to leave this place. If I don't, my dead body will be carried out of here:

I could see the worried look on my mother's face. Obviously, she knew I was right. Whoever had tried to poison me wouldn't stop. They would keep trying until they succeeded.

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"You know you can't leave, Olivia. The guards at the borders won't let you, she said with a sigh, and I panicked. I knew I had to do something. I had to leave this place-somehow. I had to think of something.