Chapter 26
Dora, you have 2 seconds. Who sent you?” Andrew asked angrily, ready to kill her if she isn’t going to say anything.
“Lisa.. Lisa asked me to poison him”
“What??” Andrew muttered in shock as the blade in his hands fell on the ground.
He couldn’t believe what he just heard. Lisa had asked her to poison Alfred, this is unbelievable. He knows Andrew had always treated Lisa with so much hatred but he never believed she could do such a thing. He thought she was different. He felt his heart break into pieces. He thought Lisa was different.
How could she? He knew Alfred had done so much to her and inflicted her so much pain but….. he stared back at Dora the maid who was on her knees crying.
He stared at her speechlessly. All this while Lisa had pretended to be a soft , kind hearted girl who couldn’t harm a fly not knowing she could go to the extent of killing a human. She poisoned Alfred. This angered Andrew a lot. Are there no other ways of making him pay instead of poisoning him?
Andrew raised up his head, there he met Lisa staring at him with tears in her eyes.
Andrew stared at him with hatred in his eyes; this made a cold shiver run down Lisa’s spine.
He walked towards her and then dragged her hands to the scene and threw her to the ground close to Dora.
“How could you Lisa?” Andrew asked and almost hit her but then he held himself. He was trying so hard to restrict himself from hitting the so-called Lisa in front of her.
“I swear on my life Andrew, I didn’t do it. She’s lying. I didn’t ask her to poison him please believe me” Lisa cried out as she felt her heart crash into pieces. She saw the hatred Andrew stared at her with, this made her cry the more.
“And you believe the maid would lie to you even after I threatened her with her family ” Andrew yelled angrily and Lisa quickly shut her eyes in fear.
She opened her eyes and stared at Andrew who was saying nothing. “Andrew, I admit I hate master Alfred but I would never stoop so low to do that to him” Lisa cried out and Andrew scoffed.
“All this time I thought you were different. I thought you were different from your goddamn father who killed his parents and brother and made him a slave, tortured him for good 10 years. Made him suffer day in and out and now you are here to kill him completely . I thought you were different from him, Lisa. I trusted you, I never believed you could be this cunning. I’m so disappointed ” he said and then he burst into a painful laughter.
“Oh my goodness! What was I expecting from Cranston? Your father’s blood runs in your veins so I wouldn’t be surprised” he said and Lisa stared at him speechlessly. She tried saying something but words weren’t coming out from her mouth at that moment. She became numb as hell.
She couldn’t move. “Father killed his parents and took him into slavery. But why?” She thought in her head as she couldn’t believe what Andrew said.
Her father was so meek and kind to her, he knows he could do anything for her and is ready to harm anyone that harms her but kills? Nah!! Her father could not do that. Her father couldn’t just do this. She was so lost in thoughts.
She had finally found out why Alfred hated her so much . It was because of what father had done to him. Now to think of it she deserves every single pain he has ever inflicted in her. She then began to wonder the pain he felt all those while he felt so much pity for him.
She began to wonder the kind of pain father had inflicted on him. Her thoughts were suddenly disrupted by the cry of Dora the maid.
“Please sir I’m sorry please do not lock me up” she cried out and Lisa turned to her and began to wonder why a maid would lie to her. Then come to think of it: who really poisoned Alfred? She asked herself.
“And as for her” Andrew turned to Lisa
“Lock her up in her room. I wonder how many people she’s planned on poisoning” Andrew muttered softly and the guard dragged Lisa to her room and locked her up.
Lisa sat on the bed in a deep thought. She began to wonder who would have poisoned Alfred. There’s more to this. I think there’s someone out there who wants him dead.
She sighed and laid on the bed. The looks on Andrew’s face earlier on was nothing to talk about. He was so angry.
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Andrew walked inside Alfred’s room and there he met him unconscious. He sighed softly and sat close to him. Suddenly, he heard Alfred sneeze slightly. He’s awake.
He opened his bleared eyes and the first person he saw was Andrew sitting close to him.
“Alfred” Andrew called out and smiled at him.
Alfred rolled his eyes and tried standing up from the bed but he was feeling too weak.
“Cmon brother, you should rest” Andrew said and Alfred turned to him.
“Help me stand on the bed” he said and Andrew nodded then helped him sit properly on the bed.
“Did you find out who poisoned the coffee?” Alfred asked as he sat properly on the bed. He was feeling so weak and drained.
Andrew kept quiet at his question. He didn’t want Alfred to know it was Lisa who did it because if he finds out then Lisa is dead.
“Here, you should drink water and rest. We will talk about who poisoned the coffee later” Andrew said and Alfred scoffed lightly.
“Even if you try to hide the truth I know who did it” Alfred said and Andrew felt his heartbeat increase.
“I know Lisa did” he said and managed to stand up from the bed and walked towards his wardrobe then brought out a gun from his wardrobe.
“Where do you think you’re going Alfred?” Andrew asked worriedly
“To end everything once and for all. To kill that bastard whose attempt was to kill me”
TBC