Love's Perfect Match

Chapter 206

were present, he heaved a sigh of relief, but he still sounded anxious. “Bad news, Elspeth! Someone just came down with food poisoning!”“What?!” Elspeth’s brows furrowed at once.Timothy took Elspeth and Blake to the scene of the incident.Elspeth glanced at the floor, the person lying on which was an actress playing a relatively important supporting role whose part in the show was almost as big as that of the lead supporting actress.Seeing that Yelena was safe and sound despite her pale face, Elspeth was glad that she didn’t get poisoned.The next second, however, what Yelena said instantly left her with her heart in her mouth. “Elspeth, I really have no idea what happened. She took a bite of my snack and suddenly collapsed to the floor. They say that she got poisoned and that I poisoned her on purpose for fear that she’d upstage me, but I-I didn’t…”Elspeth knew Yelena’s character; she wasn’t jealous of anyone, nor would she poison anyone on a whim. From her explanation, it sounded like she had just taken a snack out of her bag and was about to eat it when the female costar came over and took a bite of it. The next instant, the female costar felt unwell and passed out soon afterward with her lips turning black and her face turning pale as if she had been poisoned.Aiden was standing aside while looking all worried. “What should we do now? Don’t tell me the filming has to be postponed again after all the trouble it took to get it started?” The second supporting actress has to be hospitalized for food poisoning, with the lead actress being the prime suspect at the moment. If word gets out about this, I can forget about filming the show!Soon afterward, the cops arrived and took Yelena away immediately.Seeing Yelena’s tearful eyes, Elspeth eventually couldn’t bring herself to leave her alone, so she followed her to the police station.Naturally, Blake insisted on tagging along out of his concern for Elspeth.Before leaving the filming set, Elspeth turned to look at Timothy and whispered, “Help me check the surveillance footage.”Timothy’s eyes flickered slightly. “Roger that.”Elspeth followed Yelena to the police station to get their statements recorded. Looking at her gorgeous face, the cop couldn’t bring himself to say anything that would put her on the spot, so he began to interrogate Yelena instead. “Since you say you didn’t do it on purpose, do you have any evidence to back that up?” Yelena shook her head. “I don’t know. Perhaps the snack got poison in it, but I really didn’t poison the snack. I wanted to eat the snack at first.”The cop frowned. “Such an explanation isn’t convincing enough.”Seeing how Yelena turned pale as though she were about to burst into tears in fright, Elspeth chimed in, “I have something to say, sir.”“Shoot.”“I suspect that she was set up by someone.”The cop became interested at once. “Why do you say that?”Elspeth explained, “First of all, if Yelena were intent on poisoning that lady, she wouldn’t have waited for that lady to come to her of her own accord. Instead, she would bring the snack to that lady. If it were someone other than that lady who asked Yelena for the snack, she would end up poisoning that person without knowing. No clever person would do this.”The cop nodded thoughtfully. “What you say does make sense.”Elspeth continued, “Secondly, that lady is pretty, but she’s far less pretty compared to Yelena. Yelena has a pretty good reputation on the filming set, so you can get someone to ask around about it. There’s no way she would hurt anyone out of jealousy.”A faint smile played on the cop’s lips after he