The Million-Dollar Heart

Evening.

Yorick had heard about the Perez family's ordeal and, over dinner, he tasked Arthur with a heavy tone, "Since this case falls under your watch, you need to catch the criminal at all costs. We can't let such people off easily!" Arthur nodded, "Don't worry, dad. They won't get far!"

Yorick then turned to Sasha, his tone softening, "Sasha, don't stress too much. Whatever concerns the Perez family concerns us, the Linklaters. If you need any help, just say the word."

Sasha felt a warmth in her heart, "Thanks, dad."

She then served Yorick a bowl of soup.

Yorick took a sip.

Arthur and Sasha had just started to eat when suddenly,

"Crack!"

Yorick's face tightened suddenly, clutching his chest, and collapsing onto the table.

Arthur jumped up, rushing over, "Dad, what's wrong?"

The butler was equally startled, rushing to call for help, "Quick, get the doctor!"

Sasha came over, checking Yorick's pulse, her brows furrowing, "It's too late, dad's been poisoned. Lay him flat on his side, quick!" Arthur did as told.

Sasha swiftly used a needle to induce vomiting, and shortly after, Yorick spat out a mouthful of the clear soup he had just ingested. Sasha's eyes turned icy, "The soup was poisoned!"

Arthur's face turned grim, "Find out who entered the kitchen today. No one gets off the hook."

If it weren't for Yorick drinking that soup earlier,

likely, everyone at the table would have been poisoned by now.

Someone was clearly after the Linklater family's lives!

Daring to poison the Linklaters, he was eager to see who had such audacity.

In the hall,

the staff brought by the butler, questioned

for years, were shocked to hear about the patriarch's poisoning from

Silence fell.

dared to take the

trembling uncontrollably, his feet inching

the odd behavior and

previously cowering, suddenly looked up with a blank

a sinister smile and threw

man flying and dodged the

inhaled it fell to the ground, writhing in agony

examine

"Wait!"

covered in a deadly poison. Don't

something's off about this guy. He doesn't seem...

at the man's twisted corpse,

mind, making him act according to someone

the Perez and Martinez families, and now the

eager to stir the

But who?

anything unusual happened at home

his head, "No strangers have been around, and the servants in the back have been with us for

duties, leading to the master's poisoning and these senseless

to come in.

bowed deeply,

quickly. Handle their remains carefully. Meet any of their families' requests to avoid

force; it didn't

the

Sasha, "How's dad? Will he

her lips together, "I've neutralized the poison. It won't harm him further, but

in front of him,

his wife's vigilance, the entire

our entire

held a

flavorless, and odorless; who