However, I wasn’t as enthusiastic as him. My mind was in a mess and I felt really upset.
“Damien, what the hell? If you had just recognized
Debra sooner, she wouldn’t have suffered so much.”
Just thinking about all the pain I had caused Debra and our daughter made me feel terrible. I couldn’t believe she was even driven to a point of stealing documents.
Back when I didn’t know the truth, I mocked her and called her a hooker.
Thinking back, I wanted to slap myself.
I had beaten her up when she was down. I couldn’t imagine how painful it must’ve been to be kicked out of the Silver Ridge Pack when she was pregnant, nor could I imagine how she had gotten this far raising a child all alone.
And there was also the matter of Harlan. How did he fit into the picture?
Damien’s excitement died down instantly. He whimpered, “It’s not my fault. We might’ve been poisoned, remember?”
My heart suddenly tightened.
Damien was right. I could’ve been affected by some poison.
A N G E L A ‘s L I B R A R Y
Brian had checked up on me back when I was in a coma from Janiya’s poisoning. When I woke up, Brian came to me in private.
“Caleb, there’s a trace amount of poison in your body, but we can’t determine the source. We do know, however, that this poison is very rare. And I think it has something to do with the fact that you couldn’t recognize your mate at first.”
“How come you didn’t tell me the Last time you checked up on me?” I asked discontentedly.
“I didn’t detect it previously. My theory is that the poison was at an all-time high back at the Thorn Edge Pack. But after you left, the toxin slowly decreased, so it’s difficult to detect it.”
“Is this poison so difficult to trace?” I asked in surprise.
“Whoever poisoned you was very covert. If you hadn’t been hospitalized this time, I doubt we would’ve ever found out about it,” Brian explained with a grim expression
I fell silent for a long while.
After thinking carefully, I told Brian, “Tell no one about this, or else the consequences will be unthinkable.”
Brian nodded in agreement.
I wasn’t going to tell anyone else about the poison for now lest someone try to take advantage of this weakness. I needed to investigate it thoroughly first.
If I was poisoned inside the Thorn Edge Pack, then things were a lot more complicated than I thought. If the members of the pack knew that their Alpha had been poisoned, chaos would break loose.
But something was bugging me. Who poisoned me, and why?
Secondly, many children of the Thorn Edge Pack died young for unknown reasons. Could this also be related to this poison? When did this poison begin to spread within the Thorn Edge Pack? Most importantly, how could it be stopped?
Question after question popped up in my mind, but the answers were ever elusive.
