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."

of bad

"Only thirty

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. Besides

butler walked in, they'd be sitting ducks. And now, it was too late to do anything. The door was already shut. They couldn't

email to Teddy.

up. "Let's

"The butler's almost here. How do we

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

leaped up to the

stories up, and in

moved with the agility of a black panther, completely unharmed. Chloe was floored. Her first thought was that she had been deceived. With skills like us, he was definitely

in

had hidden his true self so well. What else didn't she know

his arms out towards

hear the

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