C196 Signing Her Death Warrant

“You know what happens to people who lie to me. Right, Maxie?”

“Uhn?” Maxwell murmured incomprehensibly as he rubbed his hands on his face and sat up in bed.

The voice registered as silence greeted his incoherent mumble.

The phone ring had woken him from a troubled sleep he had only fallen into a few minutes ago.

Maxwell removed the phone from his ear to look at the unrecognised number again