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.”

away a while

that too. They say he’d been siphoning money from Soaring Corporation for a few years now ever since he started working there. Just from accepting bribes and embezzling company funds, I reckon he took almost a billion dollars. Soaring Corporation had only found out about this recently; not only does he have to pay a

spend at least ten years in

other high–ranking executives, including Skylar Fox, were brought down by him. Looks like the internal structure

Chapter 35

reading after that.

the incident in regard to the stock market and the business ecosystem, but she hardly understood any of it and was not

fate left a significant

manager had fallen, just

supposed

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

not last long, however.

to the hotel to find her again.

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,

defenseless and she staggered backward on instinct, almost knocking over the decorative

would try to escape, so she grabbed Larissa’s arm roughly. Her weathered face was full of

Oh, Lari, I beg of you! Please save my Travis!” Her

“Let me go first!” She struggled with all her