CROSSING THE BORDER novel Chapter 108

Chapter 108

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“How is she?” Maximus waited for Karin to finish with her check up on Rania, He didn’t leave, and simply leaned his back against the wall, and closed his eyes. He had not yet had a good night sleep in the past month.

“She is sleeping now, I put sedative into the medicine that she drank.” Karin didn’t have other choice but to do that because Rania didn’t want to calm down, and the more she was too work up, the more her body tensed up, and it was not good on her condition.

“Why her healing ability is very slow? It’s even slower than human.” Maximus opened his eyes and looked at Karin intensely, which scared the healer, as she lowered her head to avoid meeting his eyes.

“I just figured things out,” Karin said in a small voice. She was trying to keep her voice steady despite her fear towards the king.

“Speak.”

“I found a small amount of poison in her system. That is the cause of her slow healing ability. The poison in her body is the same like the poison that she gave to you, my king.”

Karin’s heart was thumping wildly, because she knew how sensitive this topic was for the king.

“The same poison?” Maximus narrowed his eyes. “Someone had been poisoning her too?” His temper flared, and Karin could feel the suffocating aura that permeated off him.

Even though Karin was not a shifter, and she didn’t share the same bond with the king, but it didn’t matter, since she was trembling anyway.

“No, I don’t think so,” Karin immediately explained. “I think she accidentally got in contact with the poison, it’s like…” Karin tried to find the right analogy. “It almost like she touched the poison, and accidentally touched food with the same hand. The amount is very small, so I can’t say it until recently. This is a slow acting poison after all.”

Karin then looked at the king.

“May king, should I check on you? You have consumed a good amount of the slow acting poison after all.”

“There is no need for that,” Maximus said firmly. He knew his own body. Slow acting poison didn’t work on him. His father had poisoned him a few times and he survived those attempts, therefore, his body had been built with a high poison tolerance.

Now he could see why they tried to add the dosage of the poison he gave him, which led them to their demise, since Lula had discovered the smell of the poison on Kean.

“Lula found out Kean hid the poison because she smelled it, what kind of smell is that?” If the healer could tell through smell, so did the other shifter.

But, because they lacked of knowledge, thus they didn’t think much about it, thinking it was only ordinary scent that they happened to smell.

“The smell is like…” Karin tried to find the similar thing that close to it. “Mint. The basic ingredient for the

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poison is mint, so when they added the dosage, automatically, the smell got stronger.”

“Mint?” Maximus narrowed his eyes. He knew where he got that smell from. “Fuck!” He cursed loudly, his anger flared up again, and this time Karin took three steps back, so she would be out of reach from the king.

The healer did that out of instinct. She was scared out of her mind, but she didn’t dare to run away without the permission from the king, just in case she would anger him further.

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