Yed leveled a suspicious glare at Ned just then, snapping sharply and bluntly, "Not everyone can get their hands on such a terrible poison, and we all know how affable my father is—no one has a motive other than Ned. Dad was in a room alone with him for over an hour last night. I'm sure he did it at that time!"

"Do you have evidence?" Lothar asked, shooting Yed a look.

He was no fool—Yed was the most ambitious in the family, while Ned was always cowering and never straying out of line.

No matter how Lothar thought about it, he was not convinced that Ned would ever go that far. Instead, it was Yed who was the most suspicious.

"I-I didn't poison Dad,” Ned braced himself and argued his case. "Why would I do something like that? Don't try to slander me, Yed..."

"What, are you talking back to me?!" Yed's eyes flashed dangerously and he strode up toward Ned, ready to beat him up.

dare you snap at Daddy, eunuch!" Hal

out what happened, Yed!

laughed coolly right then. "But I

looked up, taken

his phone to show a security camera

was carrying a tray with a teapot, and Ned came up to her, taking

a dead angle before reappearing and bringing the tea to Ciril's room. "This is slander!" Ned cried in

and seized him by the collar. "Then why did you disappear from the cameras?! What were you

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