Chapter 58

My breath slows down as I watch him fall to the floor with a thud. In a minute I’m sprinting to his side and shaking him to wake up.

I look around but there’s no one to help me. Taking his face in my hands I shake him again. “Drew! Wake up! Have you had so much to drink?” I ask him despite knowing he can’t hear him.

Bending towards him I smell his breath, it was clear. Then why would- The wine, that was the last thing I saw him take, and he was being weird about it.

Could the wine have been- I’m too afraid to admit what my brain already knew. He must’ve know too that the wine was poisoned and he readily took it from me and drank. That was why father looked furious.

Uh Oh, Father knows.

I look back to the door, half expecting Father to walk through it. I look back to Drew he was already turning a little too pale.

“Why did you have to drink it?” I ask him, exasperated. “You should have thrown it away,” I cry.

I don’t think I’ve ever felt this helpless before. My purse is in there with J