The War God Alpha’s Arranged Bride Novel

---- Chapter 272 Leonard's brows furrowed. "Hemlock? How the hell would Isabella manage to get her hands on that?" "The same way she did the aphrodisiac she gave over to Samantha," Evelyn said briskly. "Do you recall the night when Michael had made that unexpected appearance? Isabella saw it as her opportunity to try and destroy my marriage and my reputation." "She slipped a bit of that same aphrodisiac into her tea, making her openly vulnerable to any other male around," Alexander snarled. Evelyn calmly reached over to take her husband's hand.

"Isabella has been using Hemlock to try and kill Edward," she said. Leonard's initial reaction was to deny such an insane claim. Unfortunately, deep down, he knew it could very well be right. That awful feeling he'd been shoving to the back of his mind for weeks was finally rushing to the forefront of his mind. It was something he never wanted to believe was true-because if that was the case, it would have meant that he had been trapped into a marriage by a psychopath. A horrible truth that ---- he'd been burying for years. He let his gaze fall to the desk as the words slipped from his mouth.

"That's why Edward's health began to fail him out of nowhere..." "Yes. Edward's physician reached out to me recently and told me that he'd found traces of Hemlock in the IV bags. Isabella had managed to use a distilled version of the plant and inject it into Edward's treatments," Evelyn explained. "We're all under the agreeable assumption that Isabella's intentions were to make it appear as though Edward's body was rejecting the medicine. When, in the end, it was all because she'd been poisoning it." "But why?" Leonard asked. "Because she wants control over the Silverwood Pack.

| guarantee it's why she got herself pregnant in the first place. With a new heir, all she had to do was find a way to get Edward out of the way." Evelyn watched her father run his hands over his face, struggling to grasp the situation "Is this why Isabella attacked you?" he questioned. "Because you had discovered what she'd done?" Evelyn curtly nodded. "Partially. She wasn't pleased to find out ---- that her plans to get rid of Edward had been put to an abrupt stop. Isabella has harbored a special kind of hatred toward me for years.

It's only now that she's decided to let it out." Alexander spoke up. "She doesn't like the fact that her own daughter's marriage is a failure and that Evelyn has been making incredible strides." Leonard let out another deflated. "I can't believe that all of this has been happening under my own roof," he acknowledged. * Evelyn, I'm...I'm so sorry." She raised her brows with slight astonishment. "It's not as though you could have done anything-" "No," he denied. "I'm sorry for what I've allowed to happen for the last several years. When | lost your mother, | let the rest of my life fall apart.

To be honest, | never had any real intentions of ever remarrying." Evelyn shook her head. "I know. Isabella practically admitted the fact that she'd taken the opportunity to swoop in when she could. She took advantage of the situation." "| never wanted things to turn out this way," he claimed weakly. " Not for you or your brother." Buzz. Buzz. Buzz. Buzz. Alexander pulled out his phone and found a new message from ---- Oliver. His stomach churned. "Evelyn, | have to go.

Oliver's just reached out, the Alpha King has summoned me to stand before the Royal Court." There was not a lingering doubt in anyone's mind. Alexander's secret had finally made its way to the King.