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Chapter 0217
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As Alexander’s voice grew more tense, my unease deepened. “A meeting?” I repeated, the faint background chatter growing louder in my mind. I knew that second voice, but I couldn’t place it. Something about it made me
uneasy.
“Yes,” he said firmly, a trace of irritation slipping through his usually composed demeanor. “It’s nothing for you to worry about.”
But the words did nothing to reassure me. For a moment, I hesitated, wondering if I should push for more details. Before I could decide, Alexander spoke again, softer now, almost tender.
“Ella, everything is under control. Trust me.”
I wanted to desperately. But as the call ended and I stood there clutching my phone, a troubling thought gnawed at me. The voices I’d heard weren’t faint whispers or distant echoes; they were distinct and urgent.
What kind of meeting was he in? And why did it feel like Alexander was hiding something from me?
As I turned to leave, a text message appeared on my phone, pulling me out of my spiraling thoughts. The sender was unknown, and the message was simple yet chilling:
“Be careful who you trust. Not everything is as it seems.”
Third Person POV
“Be careful who you trust. Not everything is as it seems.”
Brianna stared down at the screen of her phone, her fingers hovering over the message she had just sent. The words felt insufficient, their weight not nearly enough to deliver the blow she intended.
With a frustrated sigh, she deleted the message from her history. It didn’t matter. This phone wasn’t hers anyway
just a cheap throwaway device, a temporary means of contacting Miss Rowan without the messages ever being traced back to her. She’d use it a couple more times, then ditch it.
David wanted the wedding stopped, but even he wasn’t delusional enough to think Brianna could single–handedly bring that about. Still, his suggestions had been laughably desperate.
“Tell her you slept with Alexander,” he’d sneered. “Tell her you’re pregnant. Tell her Alexander is a killer, and you have proof.”
Brianna had scoffed at the absurdity of it all. Ella Rowan wouldn’t fall for such outlandish lies, no matter how convincingly they were delivered. David’s desperation oozed from every ridiculous claim.
She had come up with a better plan. A little poison had worked for her in the past. It had taken Ella years to realize her medication had been tampered with. So, poison would work again.
It was easy to track her movements and even easier to get access to the winery. A little extra added to the wine bottles, with a syringe thorough the corks, and her job was done.
No one would die, but a wedding that makes the guests ill is memorable for all the wrong reasons. It would make David happy.
But Brianna wasn’t doing this just for David. She had her own reasons, her own score to settle with the Rowan family. David was merely a convenient source of resources a pawn she manipulated to fuel her quest for revenge.
When he outlived his usefulness, she would discard him without a second thought.
The thought of that day made her smile, a slow, venomous curve of her lips. David would be furious, of course. He
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would rant and rage, unable to comprehend why someone like her–a “lowly” creature in his eyes–dared to defy him.
His indignation would be delicious.
These privileged children of alphas thought they could step on anyone who crossed their paths, use people as tools to further their own whims. They were wrong. Brianna would make sure they learned that lesson the hard
way.
It didn’t matter to her if Ella Rowan got married. Good for her. It just meant that when Brianna followed through with her plan, she could take Alexander Black down at the same time. Nothing was going to stand in the way of her revenge.
And the best part was, they would never see it coming.
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