What had happened all of a sudden made everyone on the dining table look over the servant at the same time.
Charlie's gaze swept over the bowl and the spilled soup on the floor. Then, he fixed his eyes on the face of the servant, who was lying near him. Not only was her face as pale as dying embers, but there was also a large bead of sweat rolling down from her temple. It was a reaction that only appeared in a state of extreme nervousness.
Charlie narrowed his eyes suddenly and asked in a deep and nonchalant voice, "What's in the soup?"
When the servants heard this, she was even more flustered than before. She shook her head and tried to disentangle herself from the matter. "It's none of my business. Miss Tilly has ordered me to do so!"
Tilly became furious when she heard the servant's words. She had been betrayed.
Charlie turned his face directly to Tilly and asked again, "What's in this soup!"
Tilly was a little scared by his merciless gaze, just as she was the last time while they were in the hotel. She hadn't expected that the servant could not even do such a little thing. It was just adding "something" into the soup and coaxing Wendy into drinking it. But the servant's nervousness ruined everything.
Tilly curled her lips up and muttered, "What else could it be? It's just laxative..."
"Rat poison!"
The servant was keeping her head down. She thought that Charlie was asking her the same question, so she dared not hide anything.
Rat poison?
Everyone on the table was extremely shocked when they heard this.
Wendy looked at the bowl and spilled soup on the ground in disbelief. Thinking that she had almost drunk it, she suddenly felt very scared and broke out in a cold sweat on her palms.
In the face of everyone's shocked eye expressions, Tilly felt very puzzled. She looked at the servant and asked, "What are you talking about?"
With a sullen face, Eduardo raised his hand and ordered the butler to come in. He asked the butler to gather up the spilled soup on the floor and examine it.
A few minutes later, the butler returned and hesitantly reported, "Old Master, the soup was indeed added with rat poison..."
Almost at the same time, the sound of people gasping could be heard.
Among so many shocked and angry eye expressions, no one had noticed that Madge's expression was a little pitiful.
"What?" Tilly's eyes were wide open, as if she had also been greatly shocked.
The servant immediately cried and said, "I'm sorry, Old Master. I did it according to Miss Tilly's instructions. I didn't want to do it. But I'm just a servant. I couldn't refuse her. She gave me the poison and asked me to add it to the soup..."
Tilly pointed at the servant, and her fingers were shaking with anger. "I had personally given it to you. How can I not know what is it? You did a bad job, and what's worse, now you're framing me!"
"That's enough!" Eduardo knocked on the ground heavily with his crutch.
When Tilly saw that the old man was really angry, her eyes turned red with anxiety. She soon burst into tears and pleaded, "Grandpa, please listen to my explanation. I just wanted to vent out my anger, but I hadn't expected..."
"What else do you have to say now? You just admitted that you had ordered her to do it. I thought you knew you were wrong, but I had never expected you to be so vicious! It seems that you have been spoiled by Jazmin over the years!" Eduardo shook his head in disappointment.
"Grandpa, don't be so angry. Take care of yourself! Tilly is still young and doesn't know how to behave properly. It's quite normal for her to make a mistake like this. Fortunately, nothing bad has happened now!" Madge stood up and brought over a glass of water to the old master. She leaned over and caressed his chest while looking at her cousin, "Tilly, Grandpa is very angry about you. You should apologize to everyone here!"
"No!" Tilly had a stubborn look on her face. She was unwilling to admit to anything that she had not done.
Kim also felt sad and disappointed with his niece.
Comments
The readers' comments on the novel: Purchased A Mr. Right
Hate deception and Abby and Dylan take the cake ,ugh...
NO!!! Tina belongs with Wilson…. Let Dylan and Abby get together...
Wow, once again the villain messes up the true love, Abby needs to go back abroad. And Tina’s true identity as the daughter of Bill Ambrey needs to be exposed! Then the families can “convenience marry” !! Abby is a witch....
Too bad Wilson can’t figure out that his and Tina’s ex’s and his cousin Desmond are conniving creeps!...
Anthea is so stupid, lying and leaving the man who loves her more than life itself. 🤬...
She deserves to be unhappy, being with someone she doesn’t love because of resentment for the exact thing she is doing, hopefully she ends up with no one. Calvin is a wimp and doesn’t love her, just wants a wife to please his family....
So the same basic story as Simon and Addy but stupid Emily is going to marry him! What a hypocrite! Ugh...
Emily gets more stupid every chapter, when did she pickup Calvin as a fiancé!!?? This story line is awful….very sad to do to Simon what she “thought” he had done but didn’t. She is truly a dumb woman. Simon never loved or really even cared for Addy….what the hell is she doing with someone she doesn’t even know or like/love. Awful 😢...
Emily is a fool, don’t let go of the man who truly loves you. Let go of the past, of which he did nothing but help someone who saved his life, and be happy with him… he is your soulmate....
Nothing like cutting off your nose to spite your face Emily. Just stupid! Ugh 😩...