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 for her.”

Marilyn, Larissa’s heart sank.

“If

your identity in the first place and let

in the police car on the opposite road. “That monster has nothing to do with me. It’s all

he pointed and met

right at her. His dark stare

locked away

was going with Larissa to file the police report.

sed a gun to threaten me,

“She

conspired with Marilyn. He

just quarreling and that Larissa had

she insisted

invite Larissa out to fix the bracelet. But she said she wanted to take a

meet me some other day.”

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

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

evidence.” He played a recording. It was the entire conversation that Larissa and Marilyn had had in

phone and got her to hide it in her bag so that no one

on a call with him the entire time. He’d arranged for it to