The Darling of the Paranoid Tycoon by Cheryl Rice

Chapter 22 None Would Get Away

‘Soon enough, you will meet your doom,’ Nora thought.

Harriet took the chicken soup and discreetly inserted a silver needle into it while Nora wasn’t paying attention.

Once the needle was immersed in the soup, its color began to fade, confirming that the soup had indeed been poisoned.

Harriet put away the silver needle and gulped down the soup.

Nora smiled contentedly and counted the time in her mind.

Once Harriet fainted, she would take her to the back door, where the people arranged by Bessie were waiting to take Harriet to the Happy Harpers.

However, nothing happened as twenty seconds had passed.

Nora wondered if the drug was fake when Harriet spat out the soup and wrinkled her nose.

“This soup tastes awful. I don’t like it.”

“Are you messing with me?”

Nora angrily walked over and raised her hand to slap Harriet.

But Harriet grabbed her wrist.

sneered, her

froze and widened her

and mockery were something she had never seen on Harriet’s face.

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a sharp pain behind her ear and

kicked Nora’s limp body with her toe to make

sack and put Nora in it. Avoiding the servants in the house, she took the sack

door.

been

anxiously paced back and forth.

trafficker urged, “Mrs. Munoz, the ship

an hour. If we don’t leave

go and hurry her up.”

to go and check

thud

Bessie thought someone had discovered her

in front of her, with a faint human

sack, assuming

understand why Nora had taken the trouble of putting

in a

a slim figure standing at the corner. Harriet watched her every action with

the silver needle from Nora’s sleeping

acupoint.