Chương 328: Just… be quicker next time

"Think of something? The call's already coming through, what am I supposed to do now?"

He couldn't just hang up. If he did, there might be two bodies floating in the river by tonight—one big, one small.

Ryan looked at Mia's panicked little face and felt a bit speechless.

Mia had insisted on going out, dragging him straight from the hospital to this place. She even had someone monitoring the tracker on her, acting like everything was under control. Ryan had actually believed she had thought of everything.

But now, it seemed like she'd only scratched the surface. Her fear of Alice was practically ingrained in her bones.

Ryan took the phone and glanced at the caller ID: "Alice." This was going to be tricky.

He couldn't hang up, but he also couldn't tell Alice he was out here with Mia. That left only one option: lying.

Lying came with risks, especially when it came to Alice.