Selena felt a sudden chill, and a strong metallic taste rose to her throat.

She forced down the nausea and held onto Gavin for support.

Gavin steadied her, but then he blinked in confusion, feeling dizzy himself.

He looked ahead, and in the next moment, he threw up.

Gavin turned back toward the table and saw the culprit—there was a dish with peanut sauce, and in his distracted state, he had eaten it.

He let out a frustrated chuckle.

What was wrong with him today?

He was allergic to peanuts, yet somehow, he'd let his guard down and eaten some.

It must have been because he was so angry at how the Horton and Olsen families were treating Selena.

Gavin understood that Selena had started the argument, and yes, he knew Kate and James weren't the sharpest tools in the shed, but he also sympathized with Selena.

To him, her mother's affair was only her mother's fault.

Selena was an illegitimate daughter, but she didn't do anything wrong.

And Selena had always been so gentle and loving toward him. He didn't think his family should be this hostile toward her.

thoughts swirled in his mind, Gavin's throat tightened like something was stuck in

face turning red. Trembling, he fumbled for his allergy medication and was about to take it when Selena lunged at him. "Gavin! Gavin! What's

and Ryan quickly rushed

Ellie asked, her concern genuine as she grabbed his

feeling terrible herself, Selena focused entirely on

tried to shake his head, but no words

eyes as she wailed, "Gavin, what's wrong? Don't leave

you quit it? Stop acting like he's dying! Gavin's going

started feeling like this after he had the soup. Is there something

froze for a moment,

so he quickly went to the table, grabbed the

notice anything

had been munching on her steak the entire time, overheard the conversation and instinctively took a sip of

an eyebrow, casting a suspicious glance at

knew what cassia powder was,

it poison? I had some

beat, Kate picked up her own bowl of soup and started chugging it

arm, "Kate, what are you

face was dead serious.

gasped, "Kate, you're

but we're meant to

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