Chapter 26: Rage
Sloan
Rage.
That was all that was clouding my brain right now, and all that I could see on closing my eyes. I was so furious that my hands shook from the force of it. My hands were currently wrapped around the boy, who had clearly fainted after drinking a cup of my tea. The more I stared at his face, I realized that he hadn’t just passed out for a few seconds, he was completely unconscious. His chest heaved as he breathed and it sounded like he was struggling to get each exhale out.
Someone had tried to poison me.
This has almost never happened before. The last time it did, had been about a decade ago. I had only asked the boy to drink because it looked like he needed a little something to calm down a little and not because I wanted him to actually confirm if it was poisoned or not. If I had known it was poisoned, I’d never have asked him to try it first. My hands tightened around the boy while anger flowed through my veins. Whoever it was that was responsible for this, I was going to rip their head from their shoulders.
I wouldn’t be this angry if I had drank the poisoned tea myself. But dragging this boy into it? That was so enraging, and I couldn’t even figure out why but I was so angry.
I cradled him in my arms and gently laid him in the middle of my bed. He didn’t even stir, and that made my heart stumble in my chest. Was he badly hurt? What kind of poison was in the tea?
The tea was a herbal medicine prepared by a witch, who claimed the tea was to help keep my beast under control. I genuinely didn’t believe anyone could dare poison me considering how everyone was afraid of me. I guess I haven’t been doing a lot of killing in my human form and that’s definitely about to change...
I walked up to the bedside table and picked up my phone then I put a call through to my butler, ordering him to be here this instant. As expected, it wasn’t up to two minutes before he showed up, breathing hard and sweaty like he ran all the way here. His bald head was glistening than usual today. He bowed in greeting and was about to speak when wordlessly cut him off by jerking him into my room and then pointing him in the direction of my bed..
"Go fetch the palace doctor this instant. Someone poisoned my tea and this boy is currently unconscious after drinking it." I said sharply and my butler quickly sucked in a sharp breath on noticing the boy in my bed.
My hackles quickly rose and I threw a sharp glare his way.
"What?" I barked and he bowed his head before speaking.