Three weeks later
Y/N pov:
Ok, so when I said that my bodyguard Damien was weird and how bad could it be, well, it's bad. This man just gives off bad vibes. He does everything he's supposed to, and sometimes gets me food when I ask for it. He's not bad at his job, I just don't know; he hasn't done anything that would put me off or be a red flag. So I can't go up to Alessandro and say, Hi, this guy is weird; fire him. So whenever Alessandro asks how he is, I just say that he is fine. After all, Alessandro is doing this for me, so this is me showing that I am grateful.
On a different note, I think my new birth control pills are a bit funny, as whenever I take them after I eat, I feel very lightheaded, almost like I am going to faint. I think that I might want to go back to my old ones. Also, everything has felt off. It is hard to explain, but I feel like I am being watched. Before you say I am crazy, hear me out. Alessandro had a big meeting with some people last night, and there were cameras everywhere, so maybe that is why. But to be honest, it's something else. I don't know what it is. Anyway, I am hungry, and I need to eat something.
I don't feel like a big meal, just something small. I think I will grab an apple to get me to dinner. Well, when I say I'll grab an apple, I mean Damien will grab an apple. Did I mention that I am feeling faint?
"Here you go, miss Y/L/N (your last name)." Damien utters this as he walks into my bedroom and hands me a plate of apple slices.
"Thank you so much," I respond.
"While I am here, we should talk about the meeting with your friends,'' Damien mentions as he pulls up a chair to sit next to me.
"That's in three weeks, Damien, don't worry about that." I return
"That is correct; however, if we get everything set in stone, I can tell Boss then there is no way he can say no. Unlike last time." He did make a fair point.
"Fair point. What do we know for sure?" I mumble as I take a bite of an apple.
"We know that we are going to use the dining room. We know that you are going to invite Angelina Elena, Luna, Lillian, Amara, Sienna, Lucia, Mia, Francesca, Gulia, and Camilla." As Damien continues listing off the names, my eyes start to feel very heavy. I start to feel lightheaded again, like I had been knocked out, and then suddenly everything is black. Nothing.
Alessandro's pov:
Y/N and Damian have been upstairs for a very long time now. It's not that I'm questioning Y/N's loyalty, but Damien has been just seeming off. I don't say anything. It's kind of barbaric of me if I am forcing Y/N to get a bodyguard, then finding one, then firing him. I just let it go. I think I should go upstairs and just check on them to see if they're okay. I'm sure they are; I just want to double check. I have this gut feeling that something's just off.
As I approach closer to the door, I can hear scuffling in our room, like someone's trying to move some furniture. I open the door, and my face goes white. I see Y/N's body lying out cold on top of the covers, with Damian walking towards me as the door opens.
"Oh my god, thank God you're here. I was about to come and get you. She just went out cold. I don't know what happened. I think those pills that she has been taking, the birth control ones, aren't working or something. I guess I thought she was sleeping, but when I checked her pulse, it was quite low." Damian tells me, he sounds disappointed that I found her. I'm not sure it's anything.
"Go and get the doctor and look up the side effects of those pills."
"Yes, boss," and with that, Damien opened the door again, closed it, and ran.
I turned back to see Y/N just lying lifeless on the bed. I quickly rushed to double-check. She was still alive; she'd just passed out or maybe fainted. I'm not sure. I placed a delicate kiss on her cheek and started walking, pacing the room, my mind drifting between insulting myself for letting this happen and wondering why Damien hadn't told me earlier about this.
Now that I look at the room, it seems off. Like, why are the chairs not in order, and why does the bed have wrinkles in it yet Y/N is on top? Once the doctor came, I asked every question under the sun, and then I was kicked out of the room by the doctor.
I was pacing the hallway, hoping that maybe it was just her birth control, when the doctor opened the door and looked very worried.
"Boss, you need to come in now." I nearly ran into the room, hoping that Y/N had just woken up, but she was still out.
"Oh, I was hoping she would be awake," I say, out of breath.
"She will wake up in around 30 minutes after the poison has left her body." I froze, hoping that what I had just heard would be false.
"I'm sorry; I pray to God; I just heard that wrong. Did you say poison?"
"Yes, you heard it right. From what I can tell, it was in her food and drink. Started around three to four weeks ago. I can't be 100% sure on this, but I think that it might be hydrogen peroxide, or H2O2. Its side effects look a lot like starting a new birth control pill, but passing out is the only difference. When I gave Y/N the new birth control, I ran a test to make sure the side effects were small. From what I can see, the new birth control didn't cause this; poison did." The doctor told me, and I am just standing still, trying to think this through.
"So it started around a month ago."
"Yes."
"I just can't think of anything that started a month ago that involved her food." Oh no.
"Stay with Y/N; do not let anyone else come into this room. Call me if she wakes up while I'm gone, tell her that I am doing business and that she needs to stay in bed."
"Yes, boss," I hear as I run down the stairs and into my office and grab my phone to place a call to Carlo.
"Carlo, yes, it is me. I need everyone in the meeting room in three minutes. No one is to rush just to walk in and sit down."
"Got it," Carlo says over the phone and then hangs up.
By God, I hope what I'm thinking is wrong, because if it's right, then I have just made the worst decision of my life.
-3 minutes later -
In the meeting room
Third person pov:
"Why did you call us in here, Boss?" says one man.
"Close the door," Alessandro says to the last person walking in.
Once the door is closed, Alessandro speaks again.
"So you may or may not know that Y/N hasn't been feeling well recently. Now that hasn't caused us much concern, but now..."
Alessandro stops and takes a breath.
"I don't follow you, Boss. What are you trying to say?" One man says this, looking very worried.
"This morning I went to check up on Y/N to see if she was ok, and I found her laying on top of our bed out cold. I called the doctor in, and he told me that she had been poisoned and had been poisoned since starting around a month ago." Alessandro says his voice is getting louder as he emphasises the end.
"Do you know who did it boss?" one-man questions
"I do."
"Who is it then?"
"I don't know a hundred percent for certain, and that's why you're all here. I need you all to focus on this right now."
"OK, who are we focusing on?"
"Damien, Y/N's bodyguard."
