This Time, I'll Be the Villain's Favorite Daughter novel Chapter 48

Chapter 48 Trying to Get Out

What? Am I his security blanket now? He’s holding on as I might disappear.

And where is a scrawny boy like him finding that kind of grip strength?

Maya’s thoughts drifted without direction while she waited, and the pull of sleep started coming back for

her.

She was young enough that her body demanded rest relentlessly, and she hadn’t gotten a single second of it all day.

The confrontation with Thomas, the horror of watching someone die at close range, all of it had stacked ap until the exhaustion had become physical weight.

3ut every time she started sliding under, Toby poked her awake with the focus of someone assigned a

ritical task.

She was tired enough to contemplate retaliating seriously.

He was injured, though.

So she held herself back.

She held herself back for about fifteen minutes before her body simply overruled her, and she dropped

nto unconsciousness.

Toby could call her name as many times as he wanted. She was gone.

He had nothing left to do but check her breathing every few minutes, his anxiety climbing each time quietly.

The gunmen had finished their work and disappeared as though they’d never existed.

The security team, which had contributed almost nothing to the entire situation, showed up afterward with weapons raised and found only empty corridors to intimidate. It took the better part of an hour to oring everything under control.

By that point, Maya had been asleep long enough to have lost complete contact with the world outside.

The bodyguard assigned to Toby knew his employer carried a weapon and held absolute authority within

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