Chapter 71: Poisoned Trust

Meanwhile, Alex was still in a very complicated situation because he wanted to just see Isabella open her eyes. That was all he wanted at the moment as he sat beside her, crying slowly and gently caressing her hands as his mom walked in with dinner for him.

“I bought dinner for you. At least eat. You can't be watching her and get sick yourself. If you shut down, who would take care of her again?”

Alex's mom said as Alex nodded and collected it. He first drank the water eagerly, but his eyes were still fixed on Isabella, who was still sleeping soundly. As long as the machine was still beeping and her heart was still working perfectly, he felt like he had a chance. He would still have her to himself again.

Just then, the doctors hurriedly walked in as the nurse smiled at him.

“At least we are finally having something to eat. It has been two days, and you and her friend have not yet even left here for a second. At least take a rest. We would watch after her. If you aren't here, we can employ someone to secure this room. And no one would step in watching over her in case she makes any single bulge or comes back to consciousness.”

The nurse tried to assure Alex as he shook his head sideways.

“Do not worry; I am perfectly fine, and I can take good care of her. All you just have to do is treat her and make sure that she is also very well.”

Alex said to the nurse, who nodded. She checked on Isabella again and tried to open her eyes, but yet it still was a bit red. Alex felt scared as the doctor ran a test for her.

“Do not worry; the poison has faded away, okay? And it's no longer harming her. Of course, we washed it out, but it has to clear. I think her brain is still in shutdown because it believes that she is dead. But no worries; she would come back to perfect senses,”

she said. But Alex's mom, who was misunderstanding everything, felt a bit scared.

“What do you mean by her brain thinks she had shut down? She has not shut down anything. Please take care of her. Please make sure that she wakes up,”

she said to the doctor, who assured her,

“Do not worry; she will be perfectly fine. She just needs to gain consciousness. Her brain just needs to assess everything. Do you understand?”

He tried to reassure her as she nodded. After they ran a quick test on her, they left as Alex picked up his phone and called Mirabel again, but she was not answering.

Meanwhile, back at the house, Mirabel was standing in front of everyone, waiting for the maids to come in. All the maids walked in with different tonics as one of them pointed to an herb.

“This was the herb that was fed to her. She was poisoned. Someone was wicked enough to poison her. And believe me, it is working. It is bad. And one of the maids had actually eaten Isabella's food. And she is in a total shutdown right now,”

he tried to explain. Mirabel quickly collected the herb and sniffed it.

“So where is the maid?”

They quickly brought out the maid, and her eyes were just as red as Isabella's.

“Please, please, I need, I don't know what is wrong with me. I am sorry. I did not know that it was something placed in the woman's food. And I tasted it.”

She apologized, but she shook her head sideways quickly.

“You don't have to apologize for something you don't know anything about. Okay, we will take her to the hospital now. Now. Please take her to the hospital,”

he insisted as the driver took the maid straight out of the house.

Now Mirabel was sure that someone had poisoned her.

“Everyone, pour down everything in your luggage,”

she instructed. As they started pouring everything in their bags immediately, she stood there waiting. She was definitely going to find the person.

As everyone poured out all the things in their bags, Mirabel's eyes were fixed on everything. Lily was hesitant as she poured down everything one after the other. She was still hesitant, like dropping it down was going to really do something bad to her. As she looked at everyone, including James, who had already put down everything in his suitcase, she noticed that she was ghostly pale. She must pour everything fast, or else she would be looking more suspicious to everyone.

As she quickly poured everything down, her eyes were still fixed on her bag like there was something in her bag. Meanwhile, Mirabel was being impatient and couldn't wait anymore as she yanked the bag from her harshly and poured down everything, only for a container to fall to the ground.

Lily immediately staggered backwards, as if that container had an effect on her or had taken an effect on her. As she looked at everyone, Mirabel immediately picked up the container and scanned it.

“What are you doing with a herb, Lily? What did Isabella do to you? How could you do something like this to a friend of yours? Do you know how she would feel to find out that you were the one who tried to poison her?”

Mirabel yelled at Lily, who opposed immediately.

“I did nothing, okay? I did not poison her. I promise you I did not poison her. I swear to you I did nothing. I did not even know that this, this, this container was in my bag. I had no idea it was there.”

Lily insisted as Mirabel laughed.

“You can't escape this. I can't believe you could do something like that to Isabella. What had she done to deserve this from you?” Mirabel yelled while still being unable to believe that something like that could actually happen.

“You are not just a wicked person but a murderer for this!!”