Rufus planted another soft kiss on my lips and pressed our foreheads together. “You can’t stay anymore. You’re going to be really late.”
I groaned. The more he urged me to leave, the more I didn’t want to go. I kissed his lips again and again.
“I’m leaving now. Do I really have to?” I whined, walking out of the palace step by step and looking back repeatedly.
“If you keep complaining like that, then maybe I’ll never let you leave at all.” Rufus’ voice was low and hoarse, his eyes full of dangerous lust.
I felt my knees buckle a little bit. “Okay, I’m leaving right now.”
Before I took a second step, I suddenly felt an intense piercing pain in my heart. It was like I was being torn apart.
Rufus’ POV
I stood at the gate of my palace and watched as Sylvia walked away, trying to think of ways to trick her into moving back in with me.
I couldn’t stand the thought of parting with her, even for a single day.
But she suddenly stopped on tracks and bent over.
“What’s wrong, Sylvia?” I immediately asked, stepping forward to help her up.
However, she didn’t answer me. She just collapsed to the ground.
“Sylvia!” I cried. I was so scared, as though something in my brain exploded.
Sylvia shut her eyes tight and went limp in my arms, as though her soul had left her body.
Suddenly, a shiver ran down my spine and my hands shook. I touched her face warily, only to find that her skin was cold as ice.
“Miss Todd, what happened?” Maya, who had rushed to Sylvia’s side in a hurry, dropped all the plates she was holding. They crashed to the floor and shattered into countless pieces. “I’ll call an ambulance!”
“It will be too late. We need to go to the hospital ourselves. Ask all doctors on standby to wait there for us.” As I spoke, I scooped Sylvia into my arms and got into my car. I spent all the time to the Royal Hospital.
As soon as we got out of the car, all the doctors on standby immediately surrounded us. They took Sylvia from me, put her on a gurney, and pushed her all the way into the emergency room.
Three hours later, Sylvia was finally wheeled out of the emergency room.
I was sitting on the sofa with a gloomy face and looking at the doctors, who were nervously standing in a row in the ward.
“None of you knows what’s going on?” I asked through gritted teeth.
“We saw symptoms of heart failure, but when we got her X-ray result, we didn’t find anything wrong. Logically speaking, she should be able to wake up by now.” Ferrill, an authoritative expert in cardiology and brain science, stepped forward.
“Yes, Miss Todd’s disease is very strange. We need time to study her condition,” an old doctor with grey, wispy hair bowed added. He glanced at Sylvia’s sickbed and shook his head. “It’s too out of the ordinary.”
My heart hurt so much that my hands hadn’t stopped shaking.
Sylvia had lost the ability to breathe by herself out of the blue. But these quakes told me that they hadn’t found the reason why.
“I’m giving you half a day to figure it out.” I took a deep breath and tried to calm myself down, but no matter how hard I tried to keep my voice level, I couldn’t suppress the coldness in my heart. “If not, I will kill all of you idiots.”
After receiving the order, the doctors nodded nervously and scurried off to run their tests.
Sylvia was then wheeled back into the emergency room.
I sat at the door of the emergency room dejectedly, smoking one cigarette after another. Gradually, I fell into a pool of despair. I couldn’t imagine the consequences of losing Sylvia.
The second time Sylvia was brought out of the emergency room, she looked even worse.
Now she was like a bag with air leaking from all directions. When one hole was blocked, another hole was slowly consuming her. The ventilator could only barely maintain her life.
Just as everyone was beginning to lose hope, Ferrill suddenly asked with urgency, “When did Miss Todd’s arm get injured?”
Without waiting for my answer, he rushed to Sylvia’s side and started to unwrap the bandage on her arm. His eyes went as wide as saucers when he saw what the bandages were underneath. “Why is it festering? With the strong physique of the werewolf race, wounds usually heal very quickly. The wound shouldn’t have worsened like this.”
Ferrill’s words made me narrow my eyes in suspicion. I remembered that Sylvia’s injury wasn’t so serious in the first place. She should have recovered faster with the licking of her mate. That was, unless she was poisoned.
His words instantly caused all the doctors present to break into discussion.
Ferrill took the initiative to draw some purulent blood from the wound on Sylvia’s arm for testing. The result was that Sylvia was indeed poisoned.
Rufus’ POV
“Ferrill, can you find out what kind of poison it is?” I asked in a low voice.
Ferrill stared at the test data on the report with distress. “Not right now. The poison was only found near the wound. Blood samples from other parts of her body proved to be normal.”
I frowned deeply. “So, the poison invaded her body from the wound?”
“Yes.” Ferrill nodded, pushing his glasses up the bridge of his nose. “From something that could be in close contact with the wound. Did Miss Todd interact with anyone else during this period?”
“No, she’s been with me this whole time.” From the time I rescued Sylvia in the forbidden forest to the poison that attacked her today, she had never left my sight, unless she had already been poisoned before she made it to the forbidden forest.
“What are the side effects of being poisoned with aphrodisiac?” I suddenly asked.
Ferrill glanced at me in surprise. “There are only a few kinds of aphrodisiac. If it is relieved in time, there shouldn’t be any long-term effects. Why do you ask? Has Miss Todd ever been poisoned with aphrodisiac?”
Ignoring his question, I asked him to leave.
Since the aphrodisiac wasn’t the culprit, she must have been poisoned even earlier. The only thing that could’ve come in contact with her wound was her clothes.
On the day Sylvia was rescued, she was wearing the school uniform. But she needed to change her clothes because they had gotten tattered. I recalled asking Maya to discard them.
Thinking about this, I sent it to Maya. Fortunately, she hadn’t gotten rid of the clothes just yet.
I immediately ordered her to have the clothes tested by the doctors.
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