Chapter 221 Mark Died
Tessa had just breathed a sigh of relief after seeing Liam off when another crisis suddenly struck.
Mark, who had been happily drinking with friends and enjoying the band performance, took a sip of champagne his friend handed him. Suddenly his body went rigid, then he collapsed to the ground, convulsing violently, foam gathering at the corners of his mouth, looking like he was about to die.
The scene immediately descended into chaos.
"What's happening?"
"He was fine just a moment ago."
"Did he drink too much?"
"Who foams at the mouth from drinking too much?"
"Call an ambulance!"
"First check if the hotel has medical staff."
Tessa stood frozen in shock for several seconds before rushing over.
"Mark! Mark, can you hear me?"
Mark's mother was crying hysterically beside him.
Billy and Felicity also frowned deeply, their expressions grim.
They hadn't thought Mark had any serious problem. They just assumed he'd had too much to drink today, embarrassing both himself and the Young family.
But then Tessa said in a trembling voice, "He... he has no pulse."
Only then did Billy and Felicity's eyes widen.
"That's impossible. Are you sure you're not mistaken?"
The hotel staff arrived with an employee who had some medical knowledge.
"Please save Mark!" Mark's parents cried.
The staff member asked the crowd to step back a bit and checked Mark's breathing with his hand. After a moment, he spoke with difficulty, "He's dead."
"Impossible!" Mark's mother Gemma screamed frantically. "He was just singing here! How could he be dead! You must be wrong! Stop cursing my son!"
Mark's father Idris didn't believe it either.
Although Mark's health was somewhat weak, he couldn't have just died suddenly like this.
He didn't have any underlying conditions!
Unable to accept it, Idris checked Mark's breathing himself. A few seconds later, his hand trembled and he collapsed to the ground, his face blank with shock.
Only then did everyone realize that Mark was truly dead.
Just like that, suddenly, he was gone.
The crowd was in an uproar.
Then someone mentioned Amelia.
"Isn't Ms. Richardson the Miracle Physician? She saved Roman's life and cured Liam's leg. Maybe she has a way!"
At these words, the Rodriguez family immediately clung onto Amelia like a lifeline, begging her to examine at Mark.
Felicity even tried to kneel before her.
Amelia quickly helped Felicity up. If Felicity actually knelt, who knew what rumors people outside might spread about her arrogance?
"I'll take a look at him. Please don't do this."
Felicity nodded through her tears and finally steadied herself..
Amelia walked over to Mark.
Tessa made way for her.
"Ms. Richardson, you must save him!" Tessa said.
At least today.
Mark absolutely could not die today!
Amelia nodded, crouched down, and checked Mark's pulse.
Compared to checking breathing, pulse was more accurate.
Mark's pulse had stopped .
But she didn't stand up right away. Instead, she carefully examined other parts of Mark.
His pupils, nose and mouth, and fingernails.
After finishing her examination, she didn't immediately announce Mark's death. Instead, she asked Tessa, "Before this happened, was he feeling unwell anywhere?"
Tessa instinctively started to shake her head, but then remembered something. "He'd been having night sweats and dizziness since before the engagement party, but he thought it was heatstroke and just took some medicine for it."
Amelia nodded and said, "It seems he was already poisoned back then."
At these words, the whole room erupted.
"Poisoned? What poison? How was he poisoned?"
"Did someone poison him? Could something happen to us too?"
"He just drank alcohol, is there something wrong with the drinks?"
For a moment, everyone started worrying about themselves.
Billy also instinctively touched his forehead.
No sweat.
"My son was poisoned?" Gemma grabbed the key point and asked, "Can the poison be cured?"
Amelia said, "If you'd told me earlier that he wasn't feeling well, I might have had a way. But it's too late now. Gemma, please accept my condolences."
Gemma's face instantly turned deathly pale.
Even Amelia was telling her to accept condolences , Mark was really dead.
Unable to accept it, Gemma cried and laughed at the same time, even trying to pull Mark up.
Idris ordered his people to take Gemma back to her room to rest.
Then he asked Amelia in a heavy voice, "What poison did my son take?"
Amelia shook her head.
"I'm not sure. His heart has stopped beating, so I can't tell. If you want to know what poison it was, you'll need an autopsy."
"Alright, I understand!"
Idris said coldly, "I've already called the police. Everyone here, no one is allowed to leave until this is cleared up!"
The guests immediately protested.
"We didn't poison anyone. Why can't we leave?"
"We're also afraid of being poisoned. We need to go to the hospital for immediate checkups!"
"You have no right to stop any of us from leaving."
Idris ignored them and ordered the staff to close all the exits.
—The Rodriguez family had booked this resort hotel, so naturally the hotel staff followed their arrangements.
The guests made a commotion, but Idris didn't care, just waiting for the police to arrive.
Anna quietly came to Amelia's side at this moment.
"Amelia, what's this about?"
Amelia gently shook her head at her.
This head shake had two meanings.
First, she didn't know who had administered the poison either.
Second, she was telling her not to worry too much, the others were probably not poisoned.
Anna nodded and held Adrian tight, not letting him run around.
Soon the police arrived, along with an ambulance, though it was no longer needed.
The Young family and the Rodriguez family began arguing.
Billy didn't want to offend today's guests. Among those who came today were important people like Janet, Francis, and Samuel.
Never mind the Rodriguez family, even the Young family couldn't afford to offend them.
He demanded that the Rodriguez family let the guests go free as soon as possible, but the Rodriguez family refused.
"Until we find out who poisoned my son, no one is leaving!" Idris threatened.
Billy's face darkened.
"Which of these people can you afford to offend? Mark is already dead, but the living still have to go on living. Are you planning to ruin your own lives as well?"
Idris and Gemma were beyond caring and said, "I could tell something was off with your daughter today," Gemma snapped. "She kept arguing with my son. Maybe she's the killer!"
"You're talking nonsense!"
"If you have nothing to hide, why are you afraid of us investigating?"
"I didn't say we shouldn't investigate, I'm saying you can't detain people."
"If we let people leave, how are we supposed to investigate"
The two families descended into a fierce argument.
Gemma even pulled Felicity's hair.
Felicity had dressed very formally today, and with that pull, her hair was completely messed up.
"You're crazy! Your whole family is crazy!"
Felicity was furious, but because of her status, she couldn't hit back.
It was the police who finally pulled the two sides apart.
The guests watched the two families fight, but no one felt like mocking them. everyone was worried they might be poisoned too.
Fortunately, the police brought doctors who examined everyone one by one. Finding nothing wrong, they finally breathed a small sigh of relief.
The police announced that the autopsy results would take two hours.
This was already quite fast.
Mark hadn't died from external injuries, so no dissection was needed, they just needed to test his blood.
"During these two hours, please cooperate with the investigation."
Since the police had spoken, everyone cooperated.
It was only two hours anyway.
They had thought they might be stuck here for days.
"Are all the people who attended the engagement party here?" the police asked.
Everyone looked at each other.
They quickly realized that two people were missing.
One was Liam, the other was Samuel.
Samuel was elusive and no one knew where he'd gone.
But the police didn't dare investigate him.
Neither the Young family nor the Rodriguez family dared suggest Samuel was a suspect.
Because he had virtually no connection to Mark.
He'd only come today out of respect for Billy - otherwise the Rodriguez family couldn't have been able to invite him at all.
So no one mentioned Samuel, who had appeared briefly then disappeared.
As for Liam.
The police immediately asked the Rodriguez family, "Did the deceased have any conflicts with Liam?"
Gemma's eyes darted around before she immediately said, "Yes! Mark's fiancée used to be Liam's ex-fiancée. He must have hated Mark for taking away his sweetheart, so he poisoned Mark! The killer must be him! His sister is even a doctor - it's easy for her to get poison!"
Gemma completely abandoned the attitude she'd shown earlier when begging Amelia to save Mark and directly accused Liam.
Because in her mind, Liam and Amelia were the biggest suspects.
Even if they weren't suspects, she would insist on this.
Otherwise, she would collapse under the shock of Mark's sudden death.
Amelia said expressionlessly, "Gemma, don't talk nonsense. If you say Liam is the killer, then please provide evidence. If you can't produce evidence, that's slander, and I have the right to sue you."
Gemma was clearly the type to bite the hand that feeds her.
Her face looked terrible as she said, "If you and Liam are innocent, why is everyone else here, but he's suddenly disappeared? Isn't it because he has a guilty conscience!"
"You've got it backwards. If someone really did something bad, would they dare disappear now? Running away would only confirm their guilt. The person who poisoned him would pretend nothing happened and blend into the crowd, not run."
As she said this, Amelia casually swept her gaze across the crowd.
Francis was standing there leisurely.
When he noticed her looking at him, his rather plain face stiffened for a brief moment before returning to normal.
Gemma couldn't quite argue with Amelia. After being stuck for a while, she finally said, "Anyway, Liam suddenly disappearing means he can't escape suspicion!"
The police officer also said to Amelia, "Please call Liam back first."
Amelia spread her hands and said, "Sorry, he can't come back."
The police officer frowned.
Gemma acted like she'd caught Amelia red-handed, pointing at her nose. "Officer! Look! She has a guilty conscience! It must have been the two of them who poisoned him! The evidence is clear, arrest them quickly!"
The police calmed Gemma down, then patiently asked Amelia, "What is he doing? Why can't he come back?"