CHAPTER 76: SUBSTANTIAL AND CONCRETE PROOF

As minutes passed by, waiting for the two servants whom I wished to interrogate, utmost agitation and restlessness devoured my entire system, which almost made me insanely out of myself. I was pacing back and forth while waiting for their arrival.


I am deliberately aching to behold the truth. This would definitely save me and my disposition to Penelope if ever I can prove to her that something peculiar did occur while dining that evening. I may not give justice to the second incident I committed, but the first one could somehow pardon me and lessen the weight of my sins.


I already dropped a call to my friend at the hospital, who was stationed at the laboratory. He was kind enough to assist me tonight, which I was extremely grateful for, even though it was beyond his time of duty. Regardless if my interrogation with the two servants comes out fruitful or not, I will push through with my plans of having myself be examined this evening. I will not settle down and just accept everything as it were. If I had to exert my whole energy and time just to justify and redeem myself from shame and dishonor, then I will not stop until the truth gets revealed.


My thoughts got diverted at the abrupt knock at the door, which made me swiftly strode towards it. Sarah and Hannah were standing in front of me with slightly bothered features and a bit nervous. They must have been wondering why all of a sudden I wished to talk to them.


“Sir, is something wrong that concerns us?” Sarah asked nervously, which immediately made my head shake as I sincerely smiled at them to somehow ease their worries away.


“There’s something I must know from the both of you, Sarah, but it doesn’t concern either of you. It concerns me” I momentarily paused, allowing them to relax and sit at the coffee table. After settling, I began my probing. “This is with regards to the dinner that occurred the previous night. You told me earlier, Sarah, that the both of you prepared and set the table that evening, right?” Both women nodded in an instant. “Have you noticed anything peculiar or unusual while setting the table or perhaps while bringing the dishes in?”


“I didn’t remember anything unusual that evening, Sir. We did our jobs as precisely as possible.”


“Are you certain, Sarah? How about you, Hannah? Can you recall anything that was somewhat odd that evening? Something queer or bizarre?” Both of them shook their heads diligently, which made me sigh heavily. I was about to dismiss them, so they could return to what they were doing downstairs, when Hannah’s eyes suddenly protruded as she gazed at Sarah before looking straight at me. “What was it, Hannah? Have you recalled anything? Tell me truthfully.”


“There was one I remembered, Sir, in which it rarely happened from the longest time I had been here in this household.”


“What is it, Hannah?” I asked intriguingly. I could feel my heart thumping loudly in rapid rhythm as my hands began to sweat in anticipation of what she was about to say.


“She was there, right Sarah? She helped us prepare the table and even poured water on glasses, which she never did before.”


“Oh yes! She was there alright! I noticed her coming in and started pouring water into some glasses. She even filled your glass, Sir, then suddenly left afterwards” Sarah uttered, confirming what Hannah had conveyed.


“Who? Who was with you that night that aided you in setting the dining table?”


“It was Miss Nicole, Sir,” Both women answered in unison that made me stare at them with disbelief and utmost shock.


What the servants shockingly disclosed to me swirled inside my head as Chris, my friend, started to take samples of my blood for possible drug toxication. I didn’t think twice of leaving the mansion after dismissing the two, so I could confirm everything as soon as possible.


If my hunches were correct and accurately precise, Nicole placed something inside my glass that evening, which caused me to act differently and intensely active. It must have been a drug that aroused sexual desires and stimulated pleasure that increased a person’s libido and enhanced their sexual appetite, which was typically called an aphrodisiac that can be categorized as natural and synthetic.


I already divulge what happened to me in full details to Chris, as well as my speculations of being drugged with a synthetic aphrodisiac. He would be looking for methamphetamine in my blood, which according to him could remain in the bloodstream for four days from the last time it was taken in the body.


If that substance was miraculously found in my blood, which I deeply prayed it would, that only proves that Nicole did drug me that evening for personal interest. I couldn’t see any reason she would do such a thing to me, except to have her way with me, which will literally result in controlling me and worse was blackmailing me that she had obviously manifested already.


As I waited for the result, my blood was boiling with extreme rage for Nicole. I never imagined she would go to that extent just to gain me. She purposely did that to ruin my relationship with Penelope, in which she had triumphantly achieved. I was such a fool and was too blinded to even give her the benefit of a doubt, because of our friendship and how she pretended to be sincere with her words of apology. If I only knew that she plotted this wicked thing against me, I wouldn’t have trusted her and even let her inside my room to aid her wounded hand.


“Lewis,” My head automatically lifted when Chris reappeared at the door holding a sheet of paper, which I am aware was the result of my blood examination.


“Tell me only good news, Chris.”


“Traces of methamphetamine were having a pool party in your bloodstream, man. You are positive of the drug alright, and it seems the one who did this to you wanted you so badly as to intoxicate you with such a massive dosage. I couldn’t distinguish if it's in powdered form or in liquid substance, but the amount seen in your blood vessels could make you last for up to four or five orgasms in full erection and as strong as a wild boar. Good thing portions of the substance flushes out when you have climaxed, if not, there might be a possibility of overdosage, which we both knew will have severe side effects on your body.”


“Can I have this copy, Chris? So I can show it to my girlfriend as proof of my medical examination. She didn’t believe me when I told her I wasn’t lying about being drugged.”


“I intentionally printed the result for you, Lewis. I hope you can still patch things up with your girlfriend, man.”


“I hope so too. Thanks for everything, Chris, I owe you one.”


“Nah! It’s nothing! Goodluck, man!”


We bid our farewells before I left the hospital with a much positive outlook on life. Now that I had with me the substantial and concrete proof that will clean my name from the first sin I committed to Penelope, the weight that had been hammering me down seemed to lighten in half. There is hope now in my heart that I might win Penelope back. I just wish that she would somehow open her mind and heart for me once again, because there’s nothing in this world that I ever wanted now other than to be reunited with her and to feel her love all over again.