To ruin an Omega novel Chapter 371

Chapter 371: When it rains, it pours 2

CIAN

"It was not me." She took a shaky breath. "But it was my idea."

I waited.

"I could not..." She sighed and looked up at me with guilt written all over her face. "I am sorry. I am sorry for making a move without informing you. But..."

"But what?"

"I kept something from you and in hindsight, it felt necessary. The right thing to do. But now I wonder if it was myopic and will ruin your plans."

My chest tightened.

"What did you do, Fia?"

"Your mother helped me poison Aldric."

The words came out in a rush and I felt my voice rise before I could stop it.

"What?"

The sound carried and I forced myself to regain control. I could hear the crowd inside the room. They were loud. Which could only mean Aldric had entered the room from the other door.

I looked back at Fia and lowered my voice to barely above a whisper.

"With what?"

"Mourning moon."

My eyes widened.

I had not expected that. Mourning moon was not a poison you used lightly. It was slow and it was painful and it was almost always fatal if left untreated. I looked at Fia and tried to reconcile the woman in front of me with the kind of ruthlessness it took to choose that particular poison.

Was she that terrified of Aldric?

I pushed the thought aside and tried to think. If Aldric had been poisoned and it was already set in stone, news of his death should have reached me by now. But I hadn’t gotten any. So that would mean that he was still alive. The crowd’s noise from inside the room further confirmed that. But that would also mean that he would have figured it out. And if he had figured it out, he would use the trial to get the poison out of him. He would paint my mother and me as conspirators. He would attempt to use that to gain sympathy.

I looked back at Fia.

"Why?"

She took a shaky breath and her hand moved to her stomach. It was not a gesture I associated with her. She held it there for a moment and then looked up at me with tears in her eyes.

"What I am about to say will make you mad at me and you are right to be mad. But I had my reasons to keep it from you."

I waited.

She took a long breath.

"That day at the pool, I did see something." 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢

My heart stopped.

I had known it. I had suspected it from the moment she had looked at me with that strange expression on her face. But hearing her confirm it was different.

I kept my face calm. I did not want her to freak out and stop talking.

"What did you see?"

"I got a vision." Her voice was barely above a whisper. "A vision where Aldric kills you."

The world tilted slightly.

"That is why I cannot let that man live," she continued. Her voice was stronger now. More certain. "He cannot survive this no matter what. And I know what must be going through your mind right now is why I kept it from you and how selfish it is. But you said you could not handle much anymore and even your mother implied that all of it was getting too much. I understood what that felt like and I could not have you break when you needed to be strong so I just..."

She was running out of breath.

I pulled her into my arms and held her tightly.

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