Chloe quickly nudged Connor, "Are you done yet? Someone's coming."

Connor furrowed his brows, fully absorbed in his task. "Three more minutes. Just three more minutes."

Chloe's eyes were glued to the figure approaching in the distance. Luckily, the corridor was long enough. The footsteps still sounded far away.

A minute ticked by. Chloe could now make out the silhouette. "It's the butler."

The butler was one of Claire's people. Given all the recent mishaps, he always seemed to have a hand in stirring the pot. If he caught them, everything they had worked for would go up in smoke. Chloe clung to a shred of hope. Maybe the butler wasn't headed to the study.

Thirty meters from the study, a nanny happened to come up the stairs and bumped into the butler. "Sir, where are you headed?"

"Off to the study to fetch an antique vinyl record for madam."

"Let me get it for you."

"It's okay. I'll do it myself."

What a stroke of bad luck-he

"Only thirty meters

the room. There was nowhere to hide. The area under the desk was empty. The three walls were lined with bookshelves that reached

ducks. And now, it was too late to do anything. The door was already shut. They couldn't just

and sent an email to Teddy. He erased all traces of his presence

up. "Let's

butler's almost

with thick

to

window They were three stories up, and in this castle, that

first thought was that she had been deceived. With skills like us, he was definitely a top-notch expert, on par with international special forces. Yet, for years, he had played the part of

in front

had hidden his true self so well.

his arms out towards her. "Jump

hear

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