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."

a stroke of bad luck-he was actually coming to the

again, "Only thirty

was nowhere to hide. The area under the desk was

it was too late to do anything. The door was already shut. They

email to Teddy. He erased all traces of his presence

up.

frantic. "The butler's almost here. How do

at the only wall without bookshelves. It was covered with thick drapes. Pulling them aside, he revealed a

leaped up to

Chloe was stunned. She rushed to the window They were three stories up, and in this castle, that was more like six stories. How had Connor

leaned out to look, Connor had already landed. He moved with the agility of a black panther, completely unharmed. Chloe was floored. Her first thought was that she had been deceived.

in front

had hidden his true self so well. What else

second, Connor stretched his arms out towards her. "Jump down. I'll

hear the

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