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."

skipped a beat. What a stroke of

warned again, "Only

door. From the outside, it looked untouched. She scanned the room. There was nowhere to hide. The area under the desk was empty. The three walls were lined with bookshelves that reached the ceiling.

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

Connor had finally hacked into the network and sent an email to Teddy. He erased all traces of his presence on the computer and closed the

stood up.

"The butler's almost here. How

covered with thick drapes. Pulling them aside, he revealed a window. It opened

to the

the window They were three stories up, and in this castle, that was more like six stories. How had Connor managed

was that she had been deceived. With skills like us, he was

Boy in front of

self so well. What else didn't she know

Connor stretched his arms out towards her. "Jump

could hear

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