"She's on the boat, we can think of other ways."
"There's no time left." His eyes drooped, dark and profound, even if he could devise a better solution than exchanging Aldana, he didn't want to waste a single minute pondering over it, "The tumor in her brain could enlarge at any moment, if we don't stop the pregnancy immediately, she might become vegetative." He looked at Maple Swallow, "This is my issue, you don't need to intervene. Go to work."
Once Norris Moore got involved, Trenton Smith would become completely irrational. There might indeed be such a thing as a "bête noire" in this world; Norris Moore was born to be his. Not only did she mess him up to the point where he was neither human nor ghost, but now he also had to do such unconscionable things.
Maple Swallow furrowed her brows, unable to help but say, "Treton, Aldana is innocent. If you hand her over to Steven, he'll torment her to death."
However, these concerns were never part of Trenton Smith's considerations.
