Sweet Subterfuge

Chapter 978

The steel chain was thick. The officer took a while to cut it off.

The moment she was free, Larissa felt immensely relieved.

She thanked the officer and scrambled downstairs.

Freddy was already taken away by the first officer. Only Lewis was left.

He was staring off into space with an unpleasant expression on his face.

“Lewis? Larissa waved her hand in front of him.

He snapped back to reality and looked down at her legs.

“All good?” he asked.

“All good.” She jumped around happily.

“Let’s go to the police station.” Lewis began pulling her downstairs. “We need to make a report. And Marilyn His gaze tumed cold.”

escape

Marilyn, Larissa’s heart

of you!” She elbowed him and complained. “If it weren’t for your charisma, I wouldn’t have been

an eyebrow and retorted. “If you’d revealed your identity in the first place and let everyone

at Allen in the police car on the opposite road. “That monster has nothing

looked at where he pointed and

stare was enough to give anyone the chills.

locked away

from behind. He was going with Larissa

mentioned Marilyn’s name sed a gun to threaten me, and took me to Allen’s

“She

to admit that he had conspired with Marilyn. He did not even admit that this was a kidnapping

and Larissa were just quarreling and

the officers brought Marilyn in, she insisted

bracelet. But she said she wanted to take

me some other day.”

car with her, the officers had no idea who to believe. They were both saying different things.

he heard that Marilyn was refusing to admit her part in the crime, Lewis took

a recording. It was the entire conversation that Larissa

been worried about something happening to Larissa. Before she headed out. Lewis gave her another phone and got her to hide it in her

entire time. He’d arranged for it to