Villain’s Favorite 49

Chapter 49 Thinking 

He stood at Maya’s bedside, thinking. 

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Beyond planning how to repay Thomas for what he’d done, another problem had settled in and refused to leave. 

Maya was afraid of Thomas. 

Every movement of her body, every involuntary reaction, pointed to the same thing. She knew that man. 

And whatever that man had done to her… 

Toby’s, face stayed completely neutral as the thought moved through him. 

Maya woke up the next afternoon, well past noon. 

She walked through the villa looking for Toby and found no trace of him. He was probably somewhere resting from his injury. 

The household staff here operated at an almost invisible level, never speaking to her without purpose and yet somehow always anticipating exactly what she needed. 

The moment they noticed she was awake, someone appeared to show her to the bathroom and have everything she needed laid out, then vanished again before she could register the interaction. 

It was exactly what she’d expect from old-money service. 

Minimal presence, no intrusion, just a clean kind of distance that created no pressure. 

After washing up, Maya pressed her lips together and walked over to the head of staff. “I want to go home. I want to see my parents.” 

The man’s tone softened without any visible effort. “That’s not mine to decide, but you’re welcome to ask Mr. Clark yourself.” 

Maya said nothing for a moment. 

Of course, Toby ran his household like something out of a period drama. She needed his permission just to leave. 

“Can you just call him for me?” 

“Of course.” 

The man nodded with a quiet smile and turned to place the call. “Ms. Clark would like to go home.” 

Toby had come down with a fever by that same evening. His voice came through the phone thin and overheated, like even talking cost him something. “Fine. Let her. 

“Have the security team drive her home. They don’t need to come back after.” 

The line went quiet for two seconds, and then he added before hanging up, “Keep an eye on her.” 

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He had no interest in keeping her there. After the doctor cleared her with a full check and no notable injuries, she was allowed to leave after lunch. 

Wendy had gotten the call in advance and was already waiting at the base of the apartment building, wound tight with anxiety. 

The car had barely stopped moving when the woman broke into a run and pulled Maya into the tightest embrace she could manage the second the door opened. 

The force of it nearly knocked the breath clean out of Maya. 

“It’s a dangerous world out there. From now on, you stay with and nowhere else.” 

Maya stood in silence for a moment. 

“It was just a run of bad luck,” she said, and very carefully returned the hug. 

She had a strong suspicion that proximity to Kaia was the actual source of her misfortune. 

Several prominent figures from the business world had died in the incident, and the reverberations through elite circles were significant. 

But the financial power behind Harmony International School kept it all contained, and no wave ever fully crested. 

Thomas, the only wealthy man who’d walked out alive, had every reason to stay quiet about what had happened. 

Wendy was seething, though. 

She’d redirected everything onto Thomas, and after getting Maya settled with a week’s medical leave from school, she turned her full attention to making him answer for it. 

In reality, Maya had barely been hurt. The only real thing troubling her was a bruise across her abdomen that ached when she moved. 

Toby had come away far worse than anyone else. 

Maya hadn’t seen him once in the week since the incident. 

By the second day after it happened, Wendy had already been making preparations to deal with Thomas personally. 

What followed, however, began stripping away her very committed materialist worldview. 

Every time she moved to act against Thomas, something went wrong. 

She nearly got hit by a car. Accidents kept materializing directly in her path and forcing her to stop. 

After two consecutive days of this, she had no choice but to shelve the plan to eliminate the Jacksons. 

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Chapter 49 Thinking 

The whole experience left her in a state of barely-contained agitation. 

Why? 

She had no faith in anything supernatural, and she’d handled more targets than she could count without a single incident like this. None of it had ever been this strange. 

She laid everything out for Raymond when she got home, and he listened in silence for a long time before saying, “Let me send some people in and see what’s going on.” 

Predictably, they all came back empty-handed. 

How genuinely interesting. 

Raymond started to wonder if he should try it himself, just to test whether this absurdly lucky father and daughter could actually be reached. 

He picked up a weapon, got in a car, and nearly drove into a collision on the way there. 

The two of them sat in extended silence after that. 

Raymond wrapped an arm around her waist and held his wife back before the impulse could take over. “Give yourself some distance from the Jacksons. For now.” 

The people he’d sent weren’t amateurs. 

They weren’t at Wendy’s level, but they were top-tier professionals, the kind who could move through a billionaire’s secured estate and complete a job without leaving any trace. 

And they’d still been stopped. 

Something was interfering. Some force, unnamed and not yet understood, was actively blocking every attempt they made. 

Raymond wasn’t going to put Wendy in the path of that, whatever it was. 

He hadn’t given the Jacksons much thought before all this. One wealthy man among many. 

He and Wendy had spent their early years taking every contract that came through, regardless of the target. Royalty, foreign heads of state, none of it had ever been out of reach. 

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