Adeline paced by the window, biting her nails as she watched more and more guards walk outside of the mansion, making sure nobody was going in or out through the gates or the walls surrounding the estate. The whole place was lit up, light spilling from every window. As she woke up earlier, there were screams and cries echoing through the corridors.
She had calmed down after a while, telling herself that those people were all breathing when she last saw them. Valerie, Lester, the others… they weren’t dead. Whatever was affecting them didn’t kill them. It had to be poison, but Marquis Clara surely had testers trying the food before offering it to such esteemed guests. If they had noticed anything amiss, it would have shown. Maybe it was a slow-acting poison, but they would have checked it w
