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.”

“What kind of a person do you think that woman is? After all, she followed a bunch of drug dealers to such a

taken aback. “Blood? You mean she killed

Louis. Putting Poppy’s hand back in place, Courtney explained with a straight face, “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

such a possibility, and she was still in a daze as

After knocking on the door, she shouted at Fatso, who was guarding them outside, and asked him for a tub of clean, tepid water and a towel. After bringing the water and towel

can we ever get out

that we’re not really under close watch here, and there aren’t many people around. If we work together and tear down the window, we might

not as easy as you think it is. If it really were that easy, I would’ve run away from here long ago.

her eye, Courtney gazed at the figure outside through the mottled window.

…

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

the 13 islands at the same time? Whichever island Courtney’s on, they probably won’t alert the drug dealers as long as they reach all the islands

nodded in agreement. “I think

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

me you’re gonna go search for Courtney alone?” Gale got anxious as

exchanged a brief look with Oliver. Then, he said calmly, “The drug-trafficking ring has suffered a lot since the crackdown on drugs 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 to