Bella's POVThe scream led us to the dining quarters, where one of the kitchen omegas, the older woman named Mara who'd told me I used to hum, lay collapsed on the floor with two others kneeling over her, shaking and pale."She just dropped," one of them said, voice high with panic. "She was setting the table and she just... she just dropped."I was at Mara's side before I fully registered moving there, hands hovering over her chest, that familiar warmth already gathering in my palms without me asking it to."What did she eat?" I demanded."Nothing different! The same breakfast everyone—""Check everything," Zane barked at the warriors flooding in behind him. "Every dish, every ingredient, all of it."I pressed my hands against Mara's chest and let the warmth pour out of me, searching for whatever was wrong, and found it almost immediately. A foreign presence threading through her blood, dark and bitter, spreading slow but steady toward her heart.Poison. Not natural. Crafted."It's i
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