My Perfect Omega - Chapter 110
Yes, there was a time when he merely wanted her to be someone he could control as he pleased. However, his thoughts had changed now. No, from the beginning, he had never desired for Leila to be so unhappy.
Lucas felt an overwhelming anxiety about losing her and recalled the words he had spoken to her, along with the expressions she had made.
He had believed his actions were expressions of love. But what if his actions were akin to a poison, slowly corroding her? If that were the case, wouldn’t he be partly responsible for her suffering and pain?
‘…Even so, I can’t bear the thought of letting you go.’
Even if he had been a tormentor to her, like the people of the Este County, he couldn’t let her go so easily.
“Ha, it seems to be a case of poisoning. To make an antidote, we need to know what poison it is,” the physician said.
Lucas, with hollow eyes, stared at him. He didn’t know what poison she had ingested.
At that moment, Anna staggered into the room. Despite her unsteady steps, she approached Leila and provided the answer instead of Lucas.
“T-They said they made her drink the velvet shadow spider’s venom.”
“…Velvet shadow spider venom!”
Lucas regained his senses and asked the physician.
“I haven’t seen that poison in the Camorr Empire,” The physician immediately responded. “Yes, it’s a spider usually found in swamps. How they obtained that spider’s venom…”
“Is there an antidote?”
Anna asked desperately, looking at the physician. He shook his head with a dark expression.
“…Why not? If there’s a poison, there should be an antidote!”
Anna’s scream-like outburst caused Lucas’s complexion to turn pale.
Poisons extracted from plants usually had antidotes made from the same plant. For example, if the fruit was poisonous, the root might contain the antidote.
However, venoms extracted from spiders or snakes often lacked antidotes.
Velvet shadow spider’s venom wasn’t lethal on the spot but caused prolonged suffering from high fever, leading to death or severe damage to body parts over time.
It explained Leila’s blindness.
God damn it.
He swore, rubbing his face roughly. Though it was circumstantial, everything added up, fueling his unbearable anger.
He couldn’t lose Leila like this. Even if he had wronged her, he was her only alpha and her lover. He couldn’t give up his lover over something like this. It didn’t matter if she couldn’t see, hear, or speak. Even if she were reduced to ashes, as long as she remained by his side, it would be enough. Leila was a radiant woman, significant to him.
So, in any form, he wished for her to stay by his side…forever. Even if it meant saving her and then locking her away if she dared to think of leaving him through death.
As Lucas vehemently rejected her death, a vision of her beautiful eyes appeared before him, seemingly sorrowful and slowly filling with tears. He gazed into the void and muttered fiercely.
“I’ll fix those damn beautiful eyes first. So you can only see me forever.”
Like a man possessed, he rushed out with incredible speed and entered a secluded annex meant only for the head of the family. It was where the wealth of the Bavenberg family, especially the most valuable treasures, were stored.
From there, he retrieved a holy relic and hurried back outside. If there was no antidote, he would find a universal antidote. The only thing that could neutralize all poisons was the holy water created through decades of spiritual practice and prayer.
A small glass vial of it took nearly ten years to produce. Lucas, holding the holy relic close, mounted his horse again. Though dawn was far off, he couldn’t wait.
He was terrified that, in the meantime, Leila might truly leave his side.
For the first time in his life, Lucas felt an extreme sense of fear.
No longer an arrogant alpha, he was just an ordinary man desperately trying to save his beloved.
