This Time, I'll Be the Villain's Favorite Daughter novel Chapter 257

Chapter 257 That’s My Secret

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On the third day, Maya found the last gunman in hiding. She circled around from the side and raised her gun without a sound.

She turned him into a sieve right there on the spot.

Over those three days, Button and the others had learned firsthand that the sweeter a person looked, the deadlier they could be.

Their jaws dropped. They stared in disbelief for a long time, thinking back to the first time they’d seen Maya, when they’d still thought she was just a pretty girl–a sitting duck.

Turned out the killer had been right there among them the whole time?

“So Big Sis was this fierce all along?” they whispered to each other.

“Number 4 didn’t get killed by her, did he?”

“No idea. Did any of you see Number 4?”

Even though they usually called him a coward, a good–for–nothing, the one who ran the fastest, when it actually came down to a moment like this, they were pretty concerned about Edric’s safety.

Maya listened to the crowd of kids chattering all at once and blinked. “He’s perfectly safe, no need to worry. I’m his sister after all, so nothing’s going to happen to him. Relax.”

Over those three days, the kids‘ trust in Maya had shot straight up, to the point that they’d have aimed wherever she pointed.

Since she’d put it that way, they had nothing more to say.

All the kids shoved and jostled one another, piling into the helicopter in one big rush.

The pilot had been starved for three whole days and was curled up in a corner of the cockpit.

Maya pointed her gun at the back of his head and said coldly, “Get us out of here.

“Or I’ll put you down.”

The pilot said nothing.

Before she left, Maya didn’t forget to drag a few bodies around with some effort and arrange them into a distress signal.

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She also used the gunmen’s communicator to contact the outside world ahead of time.

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That she could make sure Edric would be found and taken away by the Clarks at the first

way opportunity.

Once all of that was done, the system prodded her, “Time’s up, Maya. Let’s go.”

Maya gave a soft hum of agreement.

When she came to again, she was being held in her brother’s arms.

Maya’s lashes trembled. When she opened her eyes, she found herself looking at George’s ghostly pale face, which gave her a start.

“What’s wrong with you?”

She looked at George’s pale, boyish face and his slightly reddened eyes. A bad feeling suddenly welled up in her chest.

“Hey, wait, don’t you start crying too!”

Maya nearly screamed out loud on the spot.

She’d always figured a man crying had a distinct kind of broken quality to it.

Someone like George, who wore a smile all day with his moods a mystery, ought to have a flavor all his own when he cried.

But Edric’s crying had genuinely traumatized her.

She’d barely clawed her way out of that whirlpool of tears, and the first thing waiting for her back in her own timeline was being held and cried on by another man?

“George?” she ventured, her voice a lot softer than before. “Are you okay?”

“Maya, Maya.”

He ran through her name twice in a row, his voice shaking. “You just passed out in my arms, and your breathing stopped for two minutes.”

George had never been so frantic and panicked in his life.

He’d

put

his finger under her nose, and there’d been no breath.

He’d felt the side of her neck, and there’d still been nothing.

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He’d scooped her up and called her name, going from steady to shaking to completely losing it, the whole thing an absolute agony.

“You freaked me out.” A moment ago, George felt as cold as if his whole body had been dropped into ice water.

The smile that usually sat on his face was nowhere to be found, not a trace of expression on it, his voice very low. “I’m taking you to the hospital, Maya.”

Maya said, “I’m not going to the hospital!”

Her cold didn’t even feel bad now. Instead, she was bursting with energy. “See, I’m totally fine

now.

“So I don’t need to go to the hospital.”

Maya discovered that one round trip through another timeline had cleared up her cold completely.

It had been such a wondrous experience that she couldn’t help replaying her own heroics over and over in her head, and she turned downright peppy.

A whole different person from the wilted, droopy state she’d been in before.

George noticed it too, but he wasn’t giving up and still wanted to haul her off to the hospital. His eyes locked on her, his face blank. “You really freaked me out. You’re getting admitted, Maya. That’s final.”

“Oh, and you’re getting me locked up while you’re at it? I’m not going to any hospital.” Being hospitalized was the thing Maya hated most in this life. “I’m fine now. The reason I passed out is because…”

She paused and left him hanging. “That’s my secret, and I’m not telling you.”

“Why do you have to keep secrets from me? I hate secrets.” George’s eyes held something unreadable. He grumbled and whined a couple of times. “Every single one of my secrets is something I’d share with you.

“Like where you’re headed tomorrow and what big plan you’re cooking up…

“I’m not pulling anything lately.” George moonlighted as an intel broker, holding the secrets of politicians and businessmen by the fistful. “Whose gossip do you want to hear?”

Maya had no interest in the politics of their world, and she was none too keen on trust fund kids‘ gossip either.

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They were all the same breed of crook in the end anyway.

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“Don’t want to hear it. Too tired. I’m going to sleep.” Maya pulled the blanket over her head. “Good night.”

George stared at her for a few seconds, still not ready to give up, determined to drag her to the hospital after all.

But Maya was just as stubborn, clinging to the bed leg for dear life and refusing to let go.

The two of them tugged back and forth for ages, and in the end George caved, sitting in the chair looking like a storm cloud had settled over his whole body.

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