Bab 278: Your Heart Stopped Beating

Arabella blinked repeatedly as her husband explained with a dark expression and balled fists that she was poisoned.

It was in the wine. Alwin had checked everything and it was the wine that had poison in it.

'I just took a small sip,' Arabella paled as she realized it must have been so potent for the effect to have been instant. She lost consciousness due to the poison just a few seconds after taking a sip.

It meant the goal was to kill her.

'But why would someone poison me now? What would they gain from killing me right when Ferdinand was about to announce his decision regarding the invitation to join the Council?'

Arabella wondered if it was Lucille's doing. The aphrodisiac drug was also added to Andrew's wine. But would Lucille do the same thing twice?

Even if Lucille was assured she was not deemed as the culprit in her previous plot, it was easy to tell that the same person was responsible if she tampered with the wine again.