A Caged Songbird's Escape: Into the Arms of a Predator novel Chapter 473

But if it had been Rex, he probably would have held a grudge forever.

Rex prompted, "Nothing to say?"

"..."

Tanya took a bite of her food and shot him a glance. "I'm just afraid I'll hurt your ego if I say it."

Elissa couldn't hold back a laugh, her tense nerves finally relaxing completely.

Perhaps Rowan was right.

It didn't matter who she was.

The care and support from her friends and mentors had absolutely nothing to do with her last name or her bloodline.

She was herself, and that was enough.

Knowing nothing good would come out of Tanya's mouth, Rex decided not to embarrass himself further. He turned to Elissa and got back to business. "Marcia was released from the police station."

"None of us in the family intervened, though. It's because she's pregnant, so the police couldn't legally hold her."

As he finished, he noticed Elissa didn't look shocked or upset in the slightest. Instead, he was the surprised one, blurting out, "You knew she was... pregnant?"

Thankfully, he caught himself halfway through.

He almost dropped Frank Atwater's name.

This poor little Elissa had the terrible misfortune of being tangled up with that colossal scumbag.

Elissa didn't think much of his slip-up and nodded. "Yeah, I noticed it last night at the Wilkinson Manor."

When a woman was pregnant, especially as she got further along, the signs were quite obvious.

Rowan paused his eating, narrowed his eyes, and shot Rex a dark glance, but said nothing.

That single look made the hairs on the back of Rex's neck stand up. He pretended not to notice and kept his head down, shoveling food into his mouth.

Thank God.

He prayed Rowan wasn't too sharp right now.

His biological sister and the girl he saw as a sister were both tied to the same man.

And clearly, his newfound sister was a piece of work—first being the other woman, and now pregnant with the guy's child.

He hadn't yet figured out how to break the news to Rowan without getting beaten to a pulp.

But to his horror, Rowan asked point-blank, "Whose child is Marcia pregnant with?"

"..."

While rapidly calculating if there was an empty plot left in his family's graveyard, Rex pushed up his gold-rimmed glasses and negotiated for his life. "I can tell you."

"But you can't hit me."

The elevator arrived right as he finished speaking.

The two stepped in one after the other. Rowan glanced at him and agreed easily, "Deal."

Rex rubbed his nose. "Frank Atwater."

The next second, the hand Rowan had extended to press the lobby button slammed directly onto the button for the 21st floor.

As the doors began to close, Rex tried to intervene. "What are you doing?"

"I only promised not to hit you."

With that, Rowan pushed past him and strode out the moment the doors opened, his face dark as a storm, every step radiating pure, lethal fury.