Sweet Subterfuge

Chapter 35

Larissa opened the curtains, leaned against the windowsill, and looked down.

Even though the building was pretty high up from the ground, she could clearly make out a police car parked downstairs.

Two of them passed by their block and rounded over to the back.

Seeing as their block wasn’t involved in this, Larissa didn’t pay much attention to it. The next day, when she checked the group chat Dylan had added her into along with everyone else who owned properties in Foxtail Garden, she realized that the racket last night had been caused by a woman howling and disrupting the peace under Block 12 in the middle of the night. Her screams had been so loud that the residents of that block were unable to sleep. As such, a few of them had been forced to call the police.

A woman under Block 12–

Amber’s face flashed across Larissa’s mind,

The members of the group chat continued discussing the incident.

“I think she was looking for Mr. Fox on the 25th floor.”

“The 25th floor? Mr. Fox of Soaring Corporation?”

“That’s him.”

a while

he took almost a billion dollars. Soaring Corporation had only found out about this recently;

He’ll have to spend at least ten years in prison for that, right?”

high–ranking executives, including Skylar Fox, were brought down by him. Looks like the internal structure of the company is about to undergo a

Chapter 35

reading

in regard to the stock market and the business ecosystem, but she hardly understood any of it

fate left a

than her general manager

to her, she supposed she wasn’t at

she was being entirely honest, she was even somewhat triumphant about his

did not

hotel to find her again.

from the last time, Mrs. Hardy did not barge in forcefully. Instead, she squatted in a corner at the hotel’s entrance and waited. As soon as she spotted Larissa walking out of the hotel, she pounced immediately.‘

almost knocking over the decorative

would try to escape, so she grabbed Larissa’s arm

I beg of you! Please save my Travis!” Her voice was loud and hoarse.

“Let me go first!” She struggled