Chapter 70: Chaos Unfolds

Lily casually walked into the room, only to see that everyone was in a panic state, and Professor James was hurriedly packing up all his things. She quickly rushed towards one of the family members and muttered to them,

“Is anything going on? Why is the atmosphere suddenly weird?”

She questioned as the ladies coughed, leading to,

“Yay. Isabella is sick, and she was fed poison in this same room. Somebody had given her poison, and we are investigating it. Meanwhile, Professor James is going to check on her since she's a special student of his.”

The lady said as Lily became angry. She couldn't even contain her anger as she rushed towards Professor James.

“Where exactly are you going to? You can't tell me you are going to see her. They would pursue you. Alex would not even give you a chance to sit there for a second.”

Lily tried to explain to James, who laughed and said,

“Who told you I care about Alex? Who told you I am going there to check on Alex? It is Isabella who got poisoned, not even here. Don't you have a conscience? She is literally unconscious for hours, and they've tried their best to keep the news as discreet as possible. But at least I was able to listen and hear from my aunt. So I am going there now, and you should better do the same thing. At least redeem yourself, or else you'll be labeled the person who poisoned her. I know you don't have the audacity or the mind to do something like that, but all fingers will be pointed at you if you don't come to check on her. If you hate her, at least keep it hidden for now till she gets better.”

James warned. But Lily was not going to go back on her words. She had already made it; she had already sworn to herself that she wouldn't ever go back to being Isabella's friend. Even after everything, she had warned Isabella countless times to stay away from James, but she never listened.

As Lily slowly turned around, about to pick up a bag, she noticed that everyone's attention was fixed on her. Same with John, as John even had a more angry look on his face.

“You are a suspect, Lily. You. I saw you a few minutes before Isabella left this house. You were arguing with her, and it felt like you wanted to slap her. You hate her. You could possibly have been the one to poison her.”

John insisted as Lily became speechless instantly.

“What are you even insinuating? I can't poison her. I don't even have the mind or the audacity to do something like that. Yes, we were arguing only because she kept crossing the line, and I warned her. That is all. I did not raise my hand to slap her. It must have been a misinterpretation from you. You must have seen something else. But I would not dare raise my hand against Isabella, and I don't wish her bad.”

Lily said.

But deep within her, if she was given the opportunity to also poison Isabella, she would have done it without even thinking twice. But she did not do it because it never crossed her mind. Instead, she just thought of other ways to interrupt and ruin Isabella. She never thought of poison in any way.

Lily quickly picked up her bag and hurriedly followed behind James. But Mirabelle stopped her as she dragged her back.

“Who even told you to leave yet? We are investigating everyone in this room. Same with you, James. You cannot leave. You have to stay here until we find out who poisoned her, and nobody should take a step from where they are standing. Same with you, Professor. James, come back inside and sit down. We are going to discuss this, and we will find out who poisoned her. And if we don't find out who did it, nobody is leaving this room. Everyone is a victim, including me.”

Mirabelle said with anger in her voice as Lily scoffed.

“How does that have to do with me? If you want to search me, then search me. After searching me, can I at least go? I need to go and check on my class partner. Do you understand?”

Lily tried to insist, but Mirabelle was not even accepting her words.

“I don't care what you say, and I don't care how you try to make yourself look innocent. You are not innocent to me. As long as you hated her and you showed a sign of anger towards her, you are a suspect. You are even a bigger suspect than Professor James. And all of you guys should sit down here and wait till we find out who had poisoned her. Of course, as long as nobody smuggled themselves out, we would find that poison in this room if possible. Don't you know that someone else might have eaten out of that poison? Don't you even have a conscience?”

Mirabelle yelled, feeling even angrier because she couldn't believe that something like that would even happen to Isabella. She was the last person that could possibly think would even be poisoned because Isabella had no enemies. But now, since this was the situation, she had already sworn to find the person since Alex had pleaded with Mirabelle on the phone to make sure that the victim comes out.

As she stood in front of them thinking about everything, she suddenly had a flashback of her phone call with Alex.

“Please, sis, you have to find who did this. Do not let any of them escape. If you have to tell them about the current situation of Isabella, then go ahead and do it. As long as you find the victim. I know that the minute you mention those words, the victim would want to escape or run away. You have to find him or her. I plead with you with the name of God. Please make sure you find this person.”

She remembered Alex pleading as she nodded.

“Don't worry, the person will not be able to escape here alive. I promise you.”

She soon was brought to reality by Lily, who was clapping her hands.

“Can we at least leave? Stop keeping me here. I have important things to do.”

Lily said, but Mirabelle did not even care and pointed her hand to the chairs.

“Go and sit down. All the maids are already searching everything, and the minute they find the poison, or if they don't, then we would find the reason and everything. You can't escape. Same with you, James. I am sorry. Yes, you are from my aunt's brother family, but I really don't care much because you have to sit down here and wait. You have to watch till we find the victim. Or aren't you even curious to know who did this to Isabella? You just want to storm away. Do you think Alex will allow you to enter? Or do you think my mom would let you enter the room? Please know your limits.”

Mirabelle said, knowing very well the things that were going on between James and Alex, all because of Isabella. James at first wanted to act stubborn, but he noticed the way everyone was staring at him and just smiled fakingly before going to sit down. Lily noticed that James had already given up, so she could not act stubborn. Instead, she just joined them and sat down too.