Sweet Subterfuge

Chapter 33

Larissa instinctively lowered her head.

Seeing as her forceful attempts at entering were not working, Amber started crying. ” I need to see my uncle urgently! Please! You have to let me in! This is a matter of life and death. If I can’t see my uncle, I might as well be dead! Do you really have the heart to watch me meet my end without doing anything?”

Snot and tears trickled down her cheeks. She looked particularly pitiful.

Slight discomfort colored the guard’s face, but he remained professional. “These are the orders I have from my higher–ups. I’m sorry, Miss, I really cannot let you in.”

Amber hurled her backpack into the guardhouse. The guard took a step back in fright.

“My phone, wallet, and ID are all in this bag. Please, I’m begging you! Take these in exchange and let me in. I really am not a bad person!”

The guard bent down and picked her backpack up before handing it back to her wordlessly. His stance was firm and there was no changing his mind.

“Beep, beep-”

A car came from behind and sounded its horn, most probably due to the blockage on

the road.

to let the car behind her pass, but it wasn’t up to

she could leave.

Amber’s fit and could not walk

long after, Larissa caught a glimpse of a figure walking toward them through her

stopped between her

going on?” The icy voice was

was more than familiar with it.

straightened and

Her eyes widened in shock, her mouth slightly agape. She pointed at him for a long time but couldn’t get a single word out.

in a slight smile. “What a coincidence.”

familiarity with Amber stunned the

do you know this woman?”

do.” Kevan nodded.

how that pretty boy she once met turned into “Mr. Rogers” all of a sudden, but she did not have

his arm and resumed her initial overbearing attitude. “See? I know Mr. Rogers. Can you let me

face darkened

tried

and Kevan before he asked tentatively. “So- should I let this

spat coldly. “Let her in.”