Chapter 157
āHoney, I just want to ask, just in caseā¦ā
If the fragmented scenes and sensations floating in her head were realā¦
āDid weā¦ go all the way?ā
Her memory stopped exactly there, but the nuance of what had come to mind was no joke.
He denied it with a firm expression.
āWe did not.ā
āThen, did weā¦ kiss, by any chanceā¦?ā
āWould you even call that a kiss?ā
If their mouths were open and their tongues were all over the place, doesnāt that count?
Nina pursed her lips awkwardly, seeing him look at her as if she were strange.
Anyway, from the way he was speaking, it seemed those memories really were true.
Haahā¦
Nina let out a deep sigh and lowered her eyes.
Just the other day, she had been grumbling that sheād end up rumored to have conceived a child all by herself, like the Virgin Mary.
A peckāno, a deep kissāhad happened.
āBut whatās a little disappointing isā¦ I didnāt get to do it with a clear headā¦ No, why am I disappointed about that?ā
Startled at her own thoughts, Nina soon realized it was fine to feel disappointed.
No matter who it was with, it was still her first kiss.
Her first kiss, across both her previous and current life, and sheād spent it in an incoherent state?
If she wailed in frustration, it would be justified.
āUnghā¦ā
She rubbed her face with both hands, wallowing in the sense of loss over her first kiss, then anxiously asked,
āI spat it out as soon as it went into my mouth, but if it was enough to make me like thatā¦ just how dangerous is this stuff?ā
She hadnāt even swallowed it, and yet just the residue left in her mouth was enough to make her lose consciousness.
āI really need to have a doctor check me overā¦ā
She remembered a news story from modern times, when there was a big uproar over drugs. A victim had gone to the hospital for immediate gastric lavage after drinking a spiked beverage.
Gastric lavage.
She wanted to clean out her stomach completely.
But that wasnāt possible.
Sheād lost consciousness before she could even throw up what was insideā¦
āWhat if I end up addicted like thisā¦?ā
Nina hunched her shoulders, trembling with fear.
She got goosebumps at the thought she might end up like that madman sheād seen in the Braumhill County.
Sunken eyes, a gaunt body, flipping his eyes as he lunged at her with violence, writhing in agony and screamingā¦
āYou spat it out immediately, so that shouldnāt happen.ā
āRightā¦?ā
Seeing her forcing a smile through her fearful gaze, Ash replied resolutely, as if to reassure her.
āDo you think Iād let that happen to you? Even if someone tried to save you, Iād rip it out by the root so they couldnāt. Youād better just focus on getting better.ā
āā¦Thatās reassuring.ā
Nina breathed a sigh of relief, gazing at his ashen eyes overflowing with hostility for someone.
If she didnāt go looking for it herself, and if he wiped out all traces of that damned drug from around her, she would be safe.
But the problem was that until they destroyed the mysterious group producing that drug, anyone was at risk of addictionā¦
A drug that could ruin a personās life.
Recalling the sensations sheād felt before losing consciousness, Nina shuddered with cold dread.
āAt that time, my body didnāt feel like my ownā¦ā
The abnormal heightening of her senses, the pain that came with it, the abnormal fever that made her heart pound as if it would burst.
The person who made something so harmful deserved to be ground to dust and wiped from the world entirely.
Who on earth could have made her drink that?
āOh, what about everyone else? Is everyone else okay?ā
āā¦You were the only one targeted. Thanks to Lady Barrington keeping quiet, no one else even knows anything happened.ā
A flash of icy blue crossed Ashās eyes.
If the culprit were here now, his look was fierce enough to cut them to pieces.
āThatās a relief. Thereās nothing good that comes from word getting out about being drugged. So only a few people know about this, right?ā
āAt the moment, only Their Majesties, Lady Barrington, and myself. And a few imperial investigators who will handle the case.ā
āI seeā¦ā
But who could have tried to harm her?
Among the people who held a grudge against her, who would actually go this farā¦?
Without even needing to think deeply, Rebecca came to mind.
But was Rebeccaās grudge really this deep?
āCould it really be because of that timeā¦?ā
Did she really do something like this just because of what happened at the exhibition, completely ignoring the two years sheād spent tormenting Nina?
Sheās completely insane.
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She IS INSANE, HELLO!!!!! Did she not realize this already when Rebecca went as far as to hire a spy?! Or the fact that sheās so obsessed with Nina that she spends every party, and I mean EVERY CHANCE SHE HAS, to bad mouth Nina?! Maybe, if Nina actually DID SOMETHING about it instead of constantly letting it go, thibgs wouldnāt have gotten this far. She says she hasnāt exposed the fact that Rebecca has been spying, and even tried to plant underwear to create discord, because sheās waiting for the right momentā¦ but how long does she plan to wait? Until Rebecca kills her?!?! Like cmon, DO SOMETHING ALREADY!!! Or at the very least Ash should do something. In the first life he had no problem investigating and building a huge case against Nina and her family and exposing them, yet now when someone is targeting his wife and in turn, himself, and yet he takes absolutely no steps?!