This Time, I'll Be the Villain's Favorite Daughter novel Chapter 406

This Time, I’ll Be the Villain’s Favorite Daughter

Chapter 406 Personality Change

“It’s so weird that you suddenly stopped crying and throwing fits,” Maya said.

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Edric rested against the table, chin propped on his folded arms, and tilted his head sideways toward the window.

“Crying doesn’t do anything,” he said.

“Who told you that?”

Maya took another bite of her ice cream. The crispy cone gave a faint, satisfying crunch between her teeth.

“If you cry, I’ll be right here to comfort you,” she said.

“Though honestly, you’re the only guy I’ve never been able to figure out.”

Edric zeroed in on that immediately. “You’ve comforted other guys?” he asked.

“Yep,” Maya said without a beat of hesitation. “Your brothers.”

Edric’s brow furrowed. “George?” he asked. “Or Toby?”

“Both.”

Honestly, anyone was easier to deal with than the immovable wall that was Edric.

“Maya, you really are just the kindest soul,” the boy said. His voice came out soft as spun silk, and that smile of his hovered right between genuine and performance. “To think you’d go out of your way to comfort those two sticky, insufferable little pests.”

Maya went completely quiet. Not a single word surfaced.

She stopped chewing and looked up at him.

“Are

you seriously being passive-aggressive with me right now?” she asked.

The displeasure Edric kept buried under that honeyed, compliant tone of his was impossible to miss.

He quickly flashed the most saccharine, entirely unconvincing smile she’d ever seen. “I wasn’t,” he drawled, stretching the words out slowly.

She had absolutely nothing to say to that.

Chapter 406 Personality Change

“I’m done talking about this,” she said.

Maya finished the last bite of her cone and dusted her hands off.

“Where do you want to visit? I’ll take you. You finally got out of the house.”

She’d always seen him through a certain lens. He was still a child to her.

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No matter what he said or did, in her eyes he’d always be a little kid who needed someone to look after him.

Edric didn’t particularly have anywhere in mind.

The whole time, he watched her. He gathered up every movement she made, every flicker of expression that crossed her face, piece by precious piece, as if he was afraid she’d vanish the moment he stopped looking.

“Are you going to spend one day with me and then just leave?” he asked.

Maya thought it over for a moment. “Or if you’re not ready to go back home, I can stay with you a bit longer,” she said.

Before the last word was fully out of her mouth, Edric had already answered.

“Deal,” he said.

Maya never went back on her word. That was that.

She even had a bit of experience with kids.

It was just that every day she spent with Edric, she ended up spending his

Maya was genuinely broke.

She didn’t have a single cent in this timeline.

money.

The first few days, they were at each other constantly, bickering and squabbling non-stop, just the way they used to when they were seven or eight.

But then he got a little clingy.

He’d drift closer to her without realizing it, and everything he said circled back to the same unspoken thing.

“Can’t you just stay?” he’d say.

“I’ll give you everything I have.”

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Chapter 406 Personality Change

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Every time he said those words, his voice was soaked through with a plea he was barely holding together.

Maya’s only answer was to press her fingertip right to the center of his forehead and push him back, gentle but firm.

“We’ll see each other again,” she told him. “In the future.

“Just wait a little longer, okay?”

Edric held a balloon by its string. He stared at the thin line between his fingers, and his grip tightened, just barely

But he’d never b

He only tru

Balloons

The f

he future.

nt: this moment, this very second.

trings snapped, and people disappeared.

ar away. It felt like a lie that was never going to come true.

right now.

tiful look fell away from Edric’s face, replaced by something sharp and cold and ice came out raw with bewilderment.

he said, “does that mean I’ll have to wait another ten or fifteen years before I see you

ated to be good about it. He’d wanted to smile and let her leave, wave goodbye like it n nothing.

fter all the time she’d spent with him, Edric couldn’t hold back the hatred rising in his st. He hated fate itself.

e’d already prepared himself to forget her.

After she vanished, he’d

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