A Caged Songbird's Escape: Into the Arms of a Predator novel Chapter 465

The moment the words were out, she saw him frown and quickly corrected herself. "My mistake. I meant, who taught you how to make the filling?" She had almost forgotten his claim that he'd made the pie himself. Fine, if he said he made it, he made it. If he said the sun rose in the west, she wouldn't argue. Anything to avoid another round of his passive-aggressive remarks.

Rowan shot her a sideways glance. "What, you want to be my apprentice?"

Elissa choked for a second. "Of course not. Just curious." She had long accepted her lack of talent in the kitchen and had no desire to torture herself.

Rowan pushed the other half of the omelet toward her. "Just eat. After this, you're going across the hall to take your medicine."

"Huh?" Elissa blinked, then it hit her. Her professor must know her tendency to procrastinate with her medicine and had his wife brew it for her first thing in the morning. "You went to see them this morning?" she asked.

"Mm," he grunted. It counted, sort of. When he went over to get the pies, the elderly couple was already awake. Jacqueline was practicing yoga while simmering a herbal remedy, and Aaron had just returned with breakfast from downstairs. The moment they saw him, their faces turned cold. Their expressions only softened a fraction when they learned he was making breakfast for Elissa.

It had been too late last night to talk about the online storm, but now Elissa remembered. "By the way, what's the latest on the specialty drug?" When she woke up, a concerned message from Tanya Foster had prompted her to check online. The backlash was still fierce. People were stirring up trouble, saying she and Rowan were in a sordid relationship, two peas in a pod out to make dirty money. The comments were a deluge of abuse. Some had even started trying to doxx her again.

Elissa figured the only silver lining to all the abuse she'd endured under Matriarch Paige Murphy was that she was no longer easily swayed by outsiders' opinions. No matter how vicious the online attacks were, she knew her drug was safe and wouldn't lose sleep over it. The truly agonizing days were behind her.

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