One Night Surprise

Chapter 396 We’ll Start With Him, Then

Courtney only felt sick to the stomach as she clutched the corner of the table for support, retching up nothing but stomach acids.

Just then, she heard a strangled, intermittent cry from the bed behind her. When she looked back, she saw Poppy biting into her arm with all her might. Her eyes were bloodshot, and she showed no signs of relaxing her bite even when her arm started bleeding.

“Are you crazy?” Courtney hurried toward Poppy and grabbed her arm. “Hurry up and stop biting your arm! You wanna die here?”

If Poppy broke the main artery, no one would treat her in this wilderness. Only one thing awaited her then—death.

However, Poppy wasn’t swayed by Courtney’s words. She was still biting into her wrist as hard as possible, causing her wrist to bleed nonstop.

In a moment of desperation, Courtney lowered her voice and chided, “You’ve done so many things for Britney, yet you try to kill yourself now that you’ve gotten in her way. Keeping her interests in mind, eh?”

Poppy’s expression changed. Stunned, she stared blankly at Courtney and loosened her bite on her wrist.

Courtney continued, “There are many ways to die if you want to. Well, all your troubles will end when you die, but the living are gonna live on. If you think your death can bring any change to the living, I’d say such a price is too heavy. And besides, someone like Britney will just have you disposed of in the mountains to feed the wolves if you’re dead.”

Poppy’s face turned pale at her words. Trembling, she said, “S-She’s not human.”

bandaged Poppy’s wound with it to stop the bleeding. “What kind of a

taken aback. “Blood?

“Britney killed someone, which is why she’s wanted by the police wherever she goes. She can only follow these people around because she’s got no other choice. But you’re different. You only have a petty criminal record. As long as you get out of here and go to a place where nobody knows you,

of such a possibility, and she was still in a daze as she listened to

clean, tepid water and a towel. After bringing the water and towel in, she wiped Poppy’s body clean, saying, “Everything can start afresh after

ever get

as we don’t sit around doing nothing.” Courtney lowered her voice. “It seems to me that we’re not really under close watch here,

her, which had been sealed shut, before looking down at her bandaged wrist. Then, she shook her head, saying, “It’s not as easy as you think it is. If it really were that

the figure outside

…

in the room of an inn in the riverside village, Oliver was analyzing the current situation using the tracking device attached to the computer, marking about a dozen islands on the map where Courtney could’ve been one by one. “The range covered by the signal’s too wide. There are 13 islands in total, and there’s no way to determine which island Courtney’s been taken to. It’d be

Cameron looked very worried. “The police have plenty of manpower, so why don’t we let them search all the 13 islands at the same time? Whichever island Courtney’s on, they probably won’t alert the drug dealers

agreement. “I think

disagreed flatly. “The drug-trafficking ring must have its own counter-surveillance equipment. With so many people setting out to the river all of a sudden, those drug dealers are gonna kill her and flee if anything wrong happens. It’d be impossible for so many police

Gale got anxious as well. “Do

last year, and they’ve not done any business for a long time. As long as someone dares to buy drugs from them right now, there’ll be a way