Married a Secret Billionaire novel Chapter 361

“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.”

Cordelia turned pale as she listened in shock.

If Helen had poisoned the soup, she would not have tasted it knowing that.

It seemed that she was clueless about it as well! Did that mean someone could come in and out of their house freely and even drop things in the kitchen?

Cordelia could not help the chills that ran down her spine and the quickening of her heartbeat once she thought of this.

“What… What kind of poison is it?”

Zephyr held her lightly and could feel the tremors within her.

“It’s a slow poison,” explained the doctor. “There’s an additive in the drug that will damage one’s central nervous and cardiovascular systems when consumed long term.