The Last Novel

CHAPTER 14

"Tell me what the hell happened to them?!" 

Arabella's furious voice rang inside the room as the doctor left her children's side after assessing them.

"They-they were poisoned madam." after the old physician informed her, she controlled her breathing to keep her frantic emotions from consuming her.

"Ho-how? Who will do that? I don't remember angering anyone, so why?"

"W-wait you'll be able to heal them right? What kind of poison is it?" Arabella felt the heavy emotions on her chest making her breathless as she keeps on looking at Blaine and Scarlet who are now lying on the bed with frowning faces, which indicates that they're clearly suffering from poison.

"I-I'm sorry, but this kind of poison isn't something I can-" before the physician can even finish his words, Arabella grabbed his collar and pull him near.

"You're a physician so why can't you?!" her anger reached its limit, she had never been this scared before, even in her past life, there is no one that she cared for that she'll feel like losing her mind.

Ruel who just arrived quickly pulled her away from the poor physician. The physician knew how the Baroness loves her children so he understands her actions just now, but when she pulled him earlier he felt like something cold wrapped around his neck.

"What are you doing?! Do you think the children will get better with you harming the physician? Please calm down and let's talk about it." Ruel asked as he guides Arabella towards the chair inside the room and dismissed the physician.

"Do you know anyone whom you had any-"

"The hell I know! This wasn't supposed to happen, did I do something to alternate some events? What should I do?" Ruel frowned at her scared and confused expression.

"Calm down!" 

"How can I calm down! They can die! They were poisoned! Do you hear me? poisoned! Any minute they might die!"

"I know that, we'll try to track those people whom you had talked with before, who do you think will do this?"

"I-I don't know, everyone in town is all looking at me with disgust and slandered me, but I've never confronted anyone and I always stay out of trouble," Arabella answered while looking down, trying to think harder.

Ruel stood up and walk towards the bed where the two children are. He lifted Blaine's arms and examined his pulse, the abnormality of his pulse, and the gaps between every pulse that happens every second can uncover the poison that was used to them. While examining them he found where the children got injected by such poison, tiny little holes caused by thin needles are clearly seen at the side of their neck.

After a while, Ruel felt a chill running down his spine. This was the feeling he had when he met Arabella for the first time. Ruel stopped himself from turning his head to where Arabella is. He calmed himself and continued examining Blaine's pulse. After a few seconds, Ruel stepped back, as if he just received a startling blow.

"A-Azula flower?" he muttered to himself.

Ruel knew this flower very much since he grew up knowing the only person in the empire who can grow this kind of flower. But, how can such a dangerous poison used against such small children? and the thing that bothers him the most is that the only person he knew that can create such lethal poison is already dead.

While Ruel's having second thoughts about what he found out, Arabella suddenly talked behind him as if she realized something.

"Viscountess Alum...no it's Viscountess Mille. That woman...I must find her!" as she was about to stand up, Ruel blocked her.