A Caged Songbird's Escape: Into the Arms of a Predator novel Chapter 653

True.

This wasn't Cresthaven, so it was inevitable that the Wilkinson family's intelligence would lag slightly behind the Murphy family's.

Rex gathered his composure. "Don't let Maya contact Tristan again."

They kept tossing Tristan's name back and forth.

However, neither bothered to correct the other.

Jesse actually agreed with his reasoning. "Sure, that won't be difficult."

Given Tristan's blatant favoritism toward Maya, let alone fleeing from justice, even if Maya had murdered someone and shed a few tears, Tristan would probably help her bury the body.

Although Tristan had been stripped of his power, he still had the backing of the Wilkinson family. Others would cut him some slack just out of respect for the family name.

That would make finding Maya even harder.

Meanwhile, in an inconspicuous villa district in Vistapeak City, Maya sat disheveled on a sofa. She clutched a trash can, vomiting until there was nothing left but bile. It took her a long time to recover from the sheer terror before she slowly looked up at the man sitting opposite her.

"You were the one who had that nurse pass me the message?"

She had originally only planned to use Tristan to delay her sentencing.

She never expected that when she went to the hospital for an exam, a nurse would slip her a message while drawing her blood.

She followed the instructions and successfully escaped police surveillance.

But...

She had escaped surrounded by the dead.

The man across from her had made her crawl into The Morgue and get transported out alongside a corpse.

Who knew how long that body had been dead? The putrid stench lingered, impossible to shake off, even though she had just scrubbed herself raw from head to toe in the shower.

Just the memory of it sent her stomach churning again.

Finn Thornton looked at her as if he were staring at a dead body. "You could say that."

Maya was no fool. Forcing down her intense nausea, she asked, "What's your goal?"

She never believed in free lunches falling from the sky.

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