You will get him killed...
It was an instinctive voice; she hadn't even thought about the meaning of those words when her actions were already ahead of her brain. Just as he was about to touch the cup, she snatched it away again.
When she finally came to her senses, she was both shocked and terrified, sweating coldly all over the entire night.
However, events always have two sides, and this time the benefit to her was that it gave her a strong stimulus, keeping her heartstrings taut and her constantly cautious in trying to control herself.
She didn't know if it was really because she nearly got Joshua Sulliven killed or if Uncle Monty let down his guard afterwards and stopped hypnotizing her, but she gradually started being able to control her state and thoughts, as if she could switch back and forth between two states...
The matter was far from over. The second time, she bought the sharpest short knife.
