Bettor Mr. Nobles
Chapter 30

Fifteen minutes of waiting. The doctor has not yet arrived. Naeva started to worry. Didn't Lucie call her doctor?

Marc started to mess up. The heat that he was suffering from was very high.

Naeva really couldn't stand to see it. Marc's hands were hot and he held them tight. Her chest feels tight. Until the tears can no longer be dammed.

"Marc, why are you doing this? How will my life be if something bad happens to you?" she was in between tears.

"I'm .. I won't let anyone hurt M'mselle, I won't.." said Marc. "My feelings are pure .. purer than any love."

Marc's last words riveted Naeva.

"What do you mean, Marc?" whisper with cheeks still moistened with tears.

"I ... won't let anyone hurt her ...." Marc repeated the same sentence.

Naeva was moved. Really moved. That was important to Marc. His hands tightened his grip. Staring at Marc's agonizing face with his eyes returning misty.

Marc should know how important he is to Naeva. Seeing that Marc was in pain because of her, Naeva felt more pain than feeling it herself.

An hour passed, the doctor did not come. Naeva felt she could not wait. He replaced the compress on Marc's forehead, before then went back down to look for Lucie.

Naeva finds the girl in her twin sister's room.

"Mlle Lucie! Why hasn't the doctor come yet? It's been an hour, my brother's condition is getting worse."

Lucie looked nervous. "Tabib what?" the girl asked without daring to look at Naeva. "I-I don't understand what you mean," he pretended not to know.

Naeva looked at the girl she thought was soft-hearted in disbelief.

"Lucie! It's a matter of life. I didn't think you were this cruel!"

"Mlle Gaulle, I really don't understand, sorry ...."

Lucie seemed to be in a hurry to get out. His head bowed as he walked past Naeva.

Taps!

Naeva caught his arm and gripped him with all her might. "Wait on! You have to take responsibility!" sergeant.

Lucie grimaced as she tried to let go of her arm.

"What is this?!"Louise, who had been silent since then, approached quickly to see her twin being cornered.

"Mlle Lucie has given me poisonous food until my brother's life is threatened after eating it! I asked him to call the healer, but he pretended that nothing had happened!" naeva stared at Lucie sharply.

"Is it really like that, Lucie?"

Lucie did not answer, she was still trying to remove her arm from Naeva's grasp.

Seeing the reaction of her twin, Louise instantly knew who was right. "Based on a stupid girl! That's why I don't want to be called like you!" angry snapped.

Then his gaze turned to Naeva.

"I'm sure Lucie couldn't have poisoned anyone else, but seeing her attitude I knew Lucie was involved. You call some servants to help guard your brother. I'll tell the Countess to call a doctor."

Lucie caught Louise's arm with the other hand.

"Don't Louise! Please do not meet the Countess! I'll take responsibility and call the healer now!" he asked with a panicked and parched look.

"Shut up! The physician you said? This family is too rich to just call a healer in the matter of saving lives!"

"Please, Louise! Not on the Countess ...." Lucie started crying.

"Alright, alright! I'll find Count Abellard!"

Naeva releases her grip on Lucie's arm after Louise leaves.

He looked at the bedwet girl who was now crying with her head down while shaking her head.

"I didn't expect you to be like this" he said.

Then he walked away leaving Lucie.

**

"Mlle Gaulle, what happened? What happened to Monsieur Pomeroy?"

Maria entered Naeva's room in a hurry.

Seeing Mary, Naeva felt an angel approaching her.

"Marc ate poisoned food, Maria."

"Oh, Mon Deu! Why is there such a toxic food in this castle?"

"Come Mary. The problem is not clear. Mlle Louise is now looking for the Count to call the Doctor."

"Oh my God .. thank you Mary," said Naeva relieved, very relieved.

He immediately gave Marc a sweet liquid that was full of efficacy. Marc is still raving. But his voice was becoming more and more vague and weak.

Shortly thereafter, Abellard entered with a Doctor.

The Count's eyes were fixed on Naeva's hand, which continued to hold Marc's. The jealous flames returned.

"Come here, the doctor will examine him," called the man while trying to ease the jealousy in his heart.

Naeva moved from the side of the bed without turning her gaze away from the Doctor who approached Marc. His heart has changed to be wary of anyone.

All were silent in anxiety. Including Abellard who did not expect at all Marc's situation to be like this. His concern for Marc was different from his jealousy.

"He had consumed Cankush leaf oil. The oil makes the body temperature rise, and it dehydrates him instantly."

"Oh, Mon Deu! Where did the oil come from?" exclaim Maria.

Naeva bit her lips with teary eyes. The dangerous oil was meant for him. But why would Lucie want to hurt him?

After the doctor was delivered by Maria, Abellard approached her.

"Marc better sleep in the castle. I'll ask some waiter to bring it." Gentle greeting the man beside her.

"No! I can't let Marc get away from my eyes. The people here are too dangerous!" push Naeva hard.

Abellard was stunned to hear it. How important Marc in the eyes of Naeva to reject his offer so rough. The jealousy grew more and more inflamed in his heart.

"Then I'll ask the waiter to accompany you to look after her." Abellard felt this suggestion was very appropriate. In addition to Naeva can be helped, the girl he loves was also not only alone with Marc in this room tonight.

But Naeva turned back. "I can't trust a single person in this castle!"

It's not without reason that Naeva said that. All the servants obviously didn't appreciate them, and now a kind-hearted person like Lucie suddenly wanted to hurt him for no reason.

But Naeva's rejection turned out to provoke a sense of offence in Abellard's heart.

"Did you not trust me now? Why are you so sure Marc poisoned the man from this castle? Marc had just come home from a long trip, he could have consumed the leaf on his way!"

Naeva looked at me with a disappointed look.

"Marc has known the forest since childhood. He knows what plants he can eat or not" he said.

Naeva's statement that seemed to glorify Marc further ignited the prestige of Abellard.

"You can't just be alone with Marc here. I'll call a waiter here!"

Abellard immediately turned around and walked out of the room without waiting for Naeva's response.

**

Abellard entered the castle with her hands clenched. It was still reflected in her eyes how Naeva grasped Marc's hand with a wounded look, as if she wanted to replace Marc to bear the man's pain.

How could she ignore herself for Marc? Didn't Anne say that Naeva had fallen in love with her?

He had to go to Mary to ask someone to accompany her.

His sharp eyes found Maria talking to a servant and Lucie.

The look on the middle-aged woman's face looked angry.

"What's the matter, Maria?"

The middle-aged woman bowed slightly as Abellard approached. "Sorry, Monsieur Count. I'm figuring out the origin of that poisonous food."

"So Marc was really poisoned by the food this castle served?" Abellard looked surprised.

"Yes, Monsieur. The food Lucie brought with a waiter."

Abellard turned to the bedwet girl who had met him and introduced herself as his cousin.

"Lucie, why is that food so poisonous? Did you prepare it?"

Lucie immediately shook her head in panic. "No, no! I just drove him! And again the food was actually made for Mlle Gaulle, but it was his brother who finished his meal!"

Abellard looked stunned. He did not know, if there really is food that is deliberately spiked with poison and it is intended for Naeva. Abellard clutched her own hair with a frustrated look.

Oh ... what a fool he is. Naeva is in danger right now. While he, instead of protecting but instead blame Naeva who no longer trust the people in his castle.

All because of his excessive jealousy.

Abellard seemed to groan with her hands clenched. Self-defeating who is always rash.

"Oh my God .. Why did I go back to doing something stupid?" mumbled wailing.