Sweet Subterfuge

Chapter 19

Her assistant’s tone was urgent as she spoke. “There’s an emergency at the hotel. You need to come over and handle it in person.”

Reluctantly, Larissa climbed out of her bed and changed. She hadn’t even gotten the time to put on her makeup before she hastily drove to the Regal Dynasty Hotel.

Her assistant was waiting for her in the parking lot. As soon as she saw Larissa’s car, she immediately stepped forward and opened the car door for her.

“What’s going on?” Larissa asked before she had even stepped out of her car.

“One hour ago, the guest who checked into room 2510 last night, called and said that she had lost one of her gold necklaces and that she suspected that it was stolen by one of our cleaning staff. I asked the two cleaning staff who were responsible for cleaning up the room and they said that they never saw any gold necklace when they were in the room. The guest called the police and they’re now upstairs, trying to make sense of the situation,” the assistant explained as she matched Larissa’s footsteps, her heels clicking noisily on the floor as they walked quickly to the hotel.

“Room 2510?” Larissa raised an eyebrow.

If she wasn’t mistaken, that was the room Andrew and his girlfriend were in.

Larissa spotted Andrew and his

three uniformed police officers with them in the room and the two cleaning staff from the hotel.

the door twice out of habit. All heads turned

Larissa Seymour. I’m the manager of the

and remembered her clearly. She just hadn’t

her composure. “In that case, that’s perfect.” She pointed at the cleaning staff standing helplessly on one side. “I want

Larissa agreed. “But under one condition.” Her words turned

condition?” Kara asked.

we don’t find your necklace after the search, I want you to apologize to our

that. She was taken aback by Larissa’s request,

the other hand, questioned Larissa directly. “What if

away before coming here because they’re afraid of being

can check the surveillance cameras too.” Larissa remained calm, having dealt with many similar incidents in the past. “Our

the two cleaning staff, but she couldn’t find anything on them. Their work area had been turned upside down too, but the necklace was nowhere to be

surveillance cameras.