This Time, I'll Be the Villain's Favorite Daughter novel Chapter 258

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Maya rolled the blanket off to one side to make room for him. “Okay, okay, don’t be mad, George. Get some sleep early. You can stay over here.”

She’d gotten used to huddling for warmth with Edric back on the island, so right now she instinctively cleared a space for the person beside her.

From the look of George, getting spooked by the sight of her breathing stopping had left him a little frazzled, and there was no way he was leaving.

Rather than have him sit in a chair all night, the two of them might as well rough it in the room together.

The moment she said it, George’s eyes lit

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He reached for the blanket right away and slept on the outer side of the bed.

Late at night, Maya was half asleep and on the verge of dozing off.

Right as she was about to sink into dreamland, she felt a hand reach out beneath her nose.

Only after confirming she was still breathing did he draw it back.

But a few minutes later, he stretched his hand out again.

Was he ever going to sleep?

Maya let out a silent sigh in the dark.

She figured she really must have scared him.

If there was a next time, maybe she should try to give George a heads–up first?

No, no, no. On second thought, if there was a next time, it’d be better to do it where no one could see.

Maya rolled over, tumbled into his arms, wrapped herself around him, and mumbled, “Stop checking whether I’m breathing, George.

“Good night.”

Maybe it was the round trip through another timeline, but she was especially tired right now, so worn out her eyes could barely stay open.

And just like that, she slept straight through to noon.

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George had watched over her all night without a wink of sleep.

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When she woke up, the boy was sprawled at the edge of the bed, idly fiddling with his phone. Seeing her sit up groggily, he said, “Hungry? I made some food. Mom wants the two of us to come home.”

George figured a lifestyle wreck like him really shouldn’t be dragging a little kid around.

“You catch colds easily when you’re around me.”

Getting sick was a terrifying thing, and in the instant Maya had collapsed dead weight into his arms, George had nearly been freaked out.

He hadn’t dared sleep all night, and now he looked listless, putting heavy emphasis on it. “Yesterday, you really did scare the daylights out of me.”

Maya said, “I’m sorry. But I’m fine now.”

The good kid of the family had taken a life for the very first time, and Wendy was especially uneasy about it, so the next day she’d called to push George to bring Maya home right away.

In the past, whenever Wendy told him to come home, George mostly feigned ignorance.

But not this time. He had to bring his sister back.

George looked at her the way you’d look at a glass figurine, terrified she’d shatter the moment he wasn’t careful, staring at her nonstop even while they ate.

But she was clearly so brave.

“I’m taking you back.” George laced his hands together, propped his chin on them, bit his lip, then quickly let go, a little frazzled. “Don’t go running off, and don’t go following anybody else. Just stay close to Mom.

“This world is very dangerous.

“There are a lot of bad people.”

Maya was speechless.

“Like you?”

He actually admitted it. “Yeah, there are plenty of people like me.”

“Such as?”

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“Such as your gaming friends. I looked into them yesterday.” Mentioning this perked George up a bit, his amber eyes lowering as he fell into a brief recollection.

Last night, with nothing better to do, he’d pulled up a packet analysis tool and grabbed the login data of that gaming friend Maya kept in regular contact with.

The second the other party’s IP address range came up, he knew something was off.

It wasn’t ordinary home broadband, but a proxy chain that kept hopping from one node to the

next.

He tried running a default port scanner over it, and the services the other side had open were pitifully few, leaving almost no trace.

Normally, George wouldn’t be that paranoid–it wasn’t like he had a target on his back or anything.

But right now, he happened to be so on edge and on guard that he practically wanted to suspect every single person alive.

Maya was too little, and he had to rule out every potential danger around her.

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