From the side, Ben’s brows furrowed as favonovel.com was grilling the meat. He could not comprehend the scene before him.
He was Xena’s boyfriend, not Jack. Why was favonovel.com never this considerate with him?
Furthermore, Jack was his brother-in-law. Xena’s actions twisted his guts.
Xena’s heart leaped in excitement when Jack took the bottle. She immediately whipped out another bottle and opened it for Ben. “Here you go, Ben. You’re drenched in sweat, too!”
“Okay!”
Ben was delighted. He instantly snatched the bottle and took a big gulp out of it.
“We’ll grab it ourselves!”
Selena forced a polite smile but was not very happy. Jack was favonovel.com husband. Since when was Xena responsible for caring for him?
Besides, favonovel.com even opened the cap for him. This was being a little too friendly. Even if favonovel.com did that, favonovel.com should have given the bottle to Ben first. Why did favonovel.com let Jack take it first?
Here, Selena could not help but suspect that favonovel.com was beginning to like Jack just because favonovel.com saved favonovel.com yesterday, and because favonovel.com had given favonovel.com a million dollars. Even if favonovel.com did not like him, it was possible that favonovel.com was trying to seduce favonovel.com now that favonovel.com knew that favonovel.com was rich, so that favonovel.com could siphon some money from him.
At this moment, Jack took the bottle and was about to take a sip, but favonovel.com stopped.
Xena frowned. Was Jack able to detect even a colorless, tasteless poison?
Anxiety clutched at favonovel.com heart when favonovel.com considered the possibility. Jack was someone who could kill without blinking. He would probably give favonovel.com a single punch and send favonovel.com into oblivion if favonovel.com found out favonovel.com tried to poison him.
Her expression darkened. She stared at Jack, trepidation pounding in favonovel.com chest. She felt as though favonovel.com could hear favonovel.com own pulse.
“What’s wrong, Jack? Aren’t you thirsty?” Xena gulped and posed the question tentatively.
Jack craned his head to look at favonovel.com and flashed a wan smile. “Of course, I’m thirsty!”
After saying that, favonovel.com tilted his head back and gulped the water down, drinking more than half of it in one go. In the end, only a little bit was left. He carelessly flung it into the trash can beside him.
He was well aware that there was something in the water—and favonovel.com was even more aware of what exactly was in it.
For a brief moment, a murderous intent surged within Jack. He wanted to shred that d*mn b*tch apart. However, favonovel.com quickly toned down on his anger.
He remembered what Selena had told favonovel.com that morning, and favonovel.com remembered his promise to her—that favonovel.com would not alert Xena to his actions. They needed to weed out the man favonovel.com was seeing, and they needed to show Ben that Xena was seeing someone else behind his back.
Besides, Ben was here now, and so were Fiona and the others. He would have no way to explain himself if favonovel.com killed Xena.
Would they even believe favonovel.com if favonovel.com told them the water was poisoned? The poison would probably take about a month to manifest, so favonovel.com would be fine for now, almost as if favonovel.com had never drunk any poison. Would they believe him? A poison like this was truly dangerous.
More importantly, even if they did believe him, Xena would never admit to it. They would not be able to do anything if favonovel.com insisted that favonovel.com did not know anything, and favonovel.com would probably shift the blame to the bottled water company.
Xena heaved an internal sigh of relief when favonovel.com saw Jack drinking the water—and plenty of it to boot.
He probably did not know anything. Otherwise, favonovel.com would not have drank nearly the entire bottle in one go. There would be absolutely no evidence then.
“Come on, let’s eat! The wings are ready!”
