Sweet Subterfuge

Chapter 71

She clenched her fists, her nails digging into the flesh of her palms, and she used the pain to remind herself to remain clear-headed at all times. It would not do for her to lose her composure.

“I have always had a clear conscience in anything that I do,” she said. “I’m sorry; I am working now. If there’s nothing else, please leave.”

The long-haired editor was about to say something when Larissa shut the door.

After her shift was over at night, the girls excitedly came over to her to ask for details when she passed by the reception. “Ms. Seymour, why were the TV people looking for you? Did they ask you to go on a show?”

“Yeah, but I rejected it,” Larissa replied with a faint smile.

“Why?” The girls were so disappointed. “You’re so beautiful, Ms. Seymour. Who knows, you might go viral overnight! By then we’d be able to go out and say

that we know a famous star!”

Larissa could not help but laugh. “When there’s another chance, I’ll make sure to go for it, alright?”

that time, Larissa received several more calls from the editors of “The Mediators Room”. All of them were trying to convince her to

rejected them all.

not bear the constant disturbing and finally dropped a harsh response. “If your people

they stop

woken

blearily felt for her phone and looked at the screen, which was filled with several

1/2

every second.

group chat. There were at least ten messages

first reaction to this was that something big had happened to the hotel. That thought woke her up at once and she went to

messages.

seemed that one of

last night’s

few other janitors

“Me too!”

this group chat

were usually work-related. It was the first time that discussions about a