From Ashes to Queen: Now I Call the Shots novel Chapter 231

The Poison Beneath the Scars

“Come look at this.”

While treating the wound earlier, she had used tweezers to extract the foreign material clinging to the injury.

“This isn’t just ordinary medicinal powder. It’s mixed with something fibrous and metallic.”

Under a saline rinse, the stuff shimmered with a sinister bluish–black sheen, like a venomous serpent clinging to flesh, slowly gnawing away at the muscle.

“If we hadn’t caught this in time, your wound wouldn’t heal for ages. Whoever hit you is vicious. They clearly targeted your acupoints and used a corrosive compound to block your internal energy flow. The plan was to leave you half–alive–wishing you were dead.”

Bang!

The door suddenly burst open.

Jack rushed in.

“What did you just say? There’s poison in that?”

If he hadn’t been eavesdropping the whole time, he’d have to be pretty stupid.

Thinking about what had just happened…

Scarlett felt even more embarrassed.

But Jack marched straight over and shook her arm.

“Pixel, what did you just say? The whip marks are poisoned?”

She was dazed by the sudden shaking.

When the question sank in, she answered on reflex, without thinking. “Yeah.”

“F*ck!”

Jack spun around, slamming his fist hard into the wall.

Scarlett was stunned.

“Mr. Jack, are you okay?”

She quickly came to her senses. Embarrassment wasn’t her priority anymore.

“Hmph, I’m fine.” Jack’s knuckles ached, and he winced while shaking out his hand.

“I’m pissed off for Jasper. Those whip marks? His own father did it!”

The bitter sarcasm in his voice chilled the air.

Scarlett’s fingers paused.

Chapter 231 The Poison Beneath the Scars

She looked up, locking eyes with the storm swirling behind Jasper’s calm gaze.

His lashes cast shadows like butterfly wings beneath his eyes, but they couldn’t hide the faint red line at the corner–like the last glow of sunset after being lashed by a whip, hot and alarming.

“So the poison in the wound…” Her throat tightened as she plucked the last trace of foreign matter with her tweezers. “Mr. Matthew had someone put it there?”

Jasper let out a cold laugh.

Like a beast in chains, the sharpness hidden beneath his calm nearly bared its fangs.

“Maybe.”

Jack was clearly not satisfied with that answer.

“What do you mean, ‘maybe‘? It was him! Even if he didn’t do it himself, he allowed it! Last night, I thought you were being impulsive agreeing to demolish the courtyard. But now? You were absolutely right. Time to clean house!”

Scarlett seemed to understand now.

She asked in a low voice, “Is this about the Robert family?”

Now that Carson was in prison and Gordon couldn’t survive in Trenwyn, the Robert family was effectively uprooted.

Moses was Leandro’s second wife. Over the years, she’d relied on the Robert family’s support to maintain her place in high society.

And right now, it was a crucial moment for paving the way for Ryan.

With the Robert family’s downfall, Moses stood to lose everything.

Her hatred toward Jasper and desire to eliminate him made a twisted kind of sense.

But Leandro was still Jasper’s biological father.

Sure, there’s that old saying—“get a stepmother, and you’ll get a stepfather too“-but if he didn’t like his eldest son, he could’ve just sent him abroad or pushed him to the margins.

Why risk everything to poison and kill his own child?

Then again…

It wasn’t that hard to believe.

The Joyner family had faked kindness for the sake of a kidney.

Why wouldn’t the Fletcher family scheme to eliminate someone for the sake of their forty

What she hadn’t expected was-

Even someone as powerful as Jasper…

Still couldn’t control everything.

Chapter 231 The Poison Beneath the Scars

“Pixel, tell me how do we deal with them?” Jack ground his teeth, practically ready to charge in with a blade.

Scarlett pointed to the toxic residue, now visibly reacting.

“I can extract this.”

She smiled and turned to Jasper.

“Mr. Fletcher, since your family’s courtyard is about to be demolished, why not send them a little parting gift?”

Jack’s eyes went wide.

It was like he was seeing Scarlett for the first time.

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