Chapter 13
Xenon exclaimed in shock at Alfredo's words and stared around to be sure of what he was saying before chuckling bitterly.
"Are you mocking me?" He asked.
"Why would I do that to you? This party was specifically thrown for you, for your introduction as you need to be exposed to the world so that people would stop messing with you. Aside from being the spice masters in Viscaria, your grandfather also made a name for himself while he was in the City. It was your mother who chose to remain in Viscaria but Glacier explored everywhere."
"This is so shocking but it makes me feel good too." Xenon couldn't hide his expression.
The audience was still clapping, waiting for the grandson to mount the stage but no one came up which made the hit tired.
"Was this why you brought me here to introduce me to the masses as the heir?" He asked Aldero who nodded.
"That was part of it too, more is yet to happen tonight and I want you to experience it." He told Xenon who ruffled his golden brown hair and huffed. His eyes flickered around and he clutched his tattered shirt nervously.
"Take my place." He blurted out and Aldero gasped.
"Are you crazy? I can't be you!"
"I know, but you can pretend to take my position. I can't be amid Hypocrites who will suddenly love me. I need to be real and know those who are real with me." Xenon explained and Aldero was in a tight situation.
"But you're the boss." He complained.
"And it's a command, you will be like my representative and I'll tell you what to do. Common, go now and–" He stopped, his hands clutched to his chest painfully as if something was twisting a sharp object into his heart.
"Where are you going?" Aldero asked him but Xenon didn't respond as he began walking away to god's nowhere.
He felt something so strong and painful leading him to a place he couldn't decipher.
He went to a place that looked like a private guest room and could hear a lady's voice screaming in agony.
It was so loud that he wondered why no one heard it back at the party ground
"Maybe the wall is soundproofed," He thought and pushed the door open.
A lady was soaked in tears while a man lying on the floor, writhing and groaning in pain with foam oozing out of his mouth.
"Who are you?" She trembled in fear and pain at the same time. "Please help me! Please help my Fiance, I don't know what to do."
"What happened to him?" Xenon asked her and she sniffed.
"I went out to get wine for ourselves since the party was yet to begin but I saw two men come inside to talk to him. My Fiancé said they were business partners but I didn't believe him because he didn't sound convincing enough. It's as if he was forced to say it but I left anyway, only to come back to see him like this. I can't carry him and no one would probably believe me. I don't know what the hell happened!" She cried out bitterly and Xenon felt her pain.
"He's poisoned." He said and she gasped in shock.
"I need your help, check the kitchen and get me green vegetables, typically cabbage, spinach, kale, lettuce, and escarole." He said, squatting down to examine the man and the Lady let out a painful snore and she stared at Xenon disdainfully.
"Are you crazy? How did you even get in here? I said I need help and you're telling me to scramble around to get food items!" She cried out in tears, feeling the urge to slap Xenon out of the room.
"I'm just trying to help? I need to prepare something immediately to kill the poison while he's still alive " Xenon explained but she got enraged more as she took a good look at Xenon to notice that he looked like a pauper. His good look only covered him up but he was a poor church rat to her.
"Get out!!" She yelled in rage and Xenon sighed, the way she looked at her meant that she didn't belong to him.
"If I leave he would still die, what's so bad in trying something that would work out? I would be in the kitchen, get these items immediately or you will lose him." Xenon said as went out and the lady released a shaky breath and decided.to give him some benefit of the doubt.
Immediately she sprang up from her state and fled out to the kitchen, since she looked classy and elegant, people stared at her as if she was crazy as she entered the store to get the necessary ingredients, clutching the vegetables on her chest like a life support. She noticed that Xenon wasn't in the general Kitchen so she went to meet him at the next kitchen after the general one.
Xenon had already put the pot on fire with sausage that contained parmesan cheese, Italian parsley and meatballs, and he had added a chicken-based broth.
He didn't know what he was doing but as usual, his fingers and hands were all doing the magic for him.
"Here's the vegetables, should I slice the spinach too?" She asked him, sweating all over her face and Xenon was shocked that she had neatly sliced the vegetables.
"Yes, add it. We need it because the soup will soon be ready." He told her and added the boiled meat to the soup and the aroma that swirled around made her stomach rumble
She felt instant hunger and couldn't wait to eat whatever it was that he was cooking, forgetting about her fiance for a moment.
In less than thirty minutes, he was done and he served the soup on a plate. They both rushed over to the room only to find the man lying limp and immobile.