Sweet Subterfuge

Kevan successfully got Travis to shut up. Choking, the latter managed to spit out, “Shameless bastard!”

Kevan was unconcerned. He had lived for 34 years and had heard worse than this. The words “shameless bastard” had no effect on him at all.

“Is there any use in being modest?” he retorted. “I’m sure the two of you know better than I do that sometimes being shameless is the key to success.”

His sarcasm was obvious; Travis caught on to it immediately.

“You!” Enraged, Travis let go of Amber and charged over. His fist aimed for Kevan’s face, but the latter caught it a few inches before it could land.

“You’re biting off more than you can chew,” Kevan sneered coolly as he twisted Travis’ wrist, causing him to turn around.

Kevan then kicked the back of Travis’ knee. With a thud, Travis was kneeling on the ground.

Covering her mouth, Amber wailed shrilly, “Help! Help! There’s an attack! Someone’s assaulting my partner!”

Her voice was rather irritating in the silence of the night.

Kevan leveled a cold glare at her and growled, “Shut up! Or I’ll beat you up too!”

Amber took a big step back. “How dare you!” She did her best to look fierce, but that did not shield the fear in her eyes.

“You’ll find out later, won’t you?” Kevan smiled darkly as he yanked on Travis’ hair and stepped on his calf. A twist of his forefoot caused Travis to let out a piercing shriek.

“Amber, call the police!” he cried.

Coming to her senses, Amber reached for her phone, fumbling several times before she finally got it out. Before she could unlock it, however, Larissa snatched it and threw it on the ground.

despair before she lunged at Larissa like a

was heavier than Larissa. So, when Larissa moved aside, Amber missed her

sound for

howling, Amber’s current reaction was more alarming to Larissa. She hurriedly went to turn Amber over and

forehead. Amber was also biting her lip hard and trembling incessantly,

red patch

thought as she quickly whipped out her own

used all the power he had in his body to

little while longer! You’ll be fine. I won’t let anything happen to

space. Right now, she stood about two steps away and watched the couple with

miserable as she was that night at the fancy restaurant. As a matter of fact, she felt nothing.

However, she did not know when

cold?” he asked.

Larissa was

begun. Hence, occasional cold winds were blowing

had only worn a thin shirt that could not resist the cold. She rubbed her arms and ended

and draped it over her. The fragrance of male cologne invading her senses made

Larissa wanted to peel off the jacket and return

to act as if they were going to lose each other, and said in a low voice, “As things stand right now, you won’t be able to get back to the hotel soon. It’s

he said that,

he helped her to adjust

“See?”

lips and stopped resisting his

…

arrived quickly.

he passed by Larissa and Kevan, he snarled a threat at the former, “If something

and Larissa remained

think…that she’ll be okay?” she asked Kevan so softly that the latter thought he imagined it. He was not a doctor, so he could