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.”

no escape for her.”

he mentioned Marilyn,

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

first place and let everyone know that you were my cousin, none of this

Allen in the police car on the opposite road. “That monster

where he pointed and met

dark stare was

locked away

followed the police car from behind. He was going with Larissa to file

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

“She

Allen refused to admit that he had conspired with Marilyn. He did not even

that he and Larissa were just quarreling and that

officers brought Marilyn in, she insisted on

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

meet me some other day.”

only Larissa had been present in the car with her, the officers had no

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

played a recording. It was the entire conversation that Larissa and Marilyn had

about something happening to Larissa. Before she headed out. Lewis gave her another phone and got her to hide it in her bag so that no one would notice

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