Encore of the Avenging Muse (Sylvia and Rupert)

Chapter 310

Chapter 310

Fanny's henchman handed her the bag.

Sylvia rattled off the unlock code without hesitation.

Fanny scrolled through every last thing on Sylvia's phone and laptop-work emails, class notes, random chitchat. No trace of any incriminating video or photos.

She frowned, clearly still suspicious.

Meanwhile, Sylvia quietly worked a broken tile against the rope binding her wrists underwater, trying to keep the conversation going. "Ms. Lance, if you think I'm hiding something, you're more than welcome to have your tech guy do a deep search."

Fanny didn't hesitate. She waved her hand, and one of her people started a full scan on both devices.

Watching the progress bars crawl across the screens, Sylvia felt a flicker of hope. Her hard drive was packed with four years' worth of design files and half-finished projects-searching all that would take a while.

Hopefully long enough.

But just as she felt the last threads start to give way, the scan beeped finished. "Nothing, ma'am."

Fanny snatched Sylvia's phone, glaring in disbelief.

a strange mix of relief and gratitude-she owed Rupert for scrubbing her phone so

yanked Sylvia to

calm. "Why would I? What, so you can kill me? Ms. Lance, come on. I don't have a beef with you-why would I try

Mr. Rupert and frame Bridget! You want to turn us

deadpan. "So you'd treat Bridget the same way

Her grip

quietly. "Because Rupert's

from framing her? But if I die

of this alive. When

pale,

flickering

ankles, and slipped free. Then, in a

reeking water, sending up a cloud

a moment, no one on the pool deck could

skin, she swam for the deep end, then scrambled out onto

their boss out of the water, Fanny spotted Sylvia and screamed, "Get her! Don't let her escape kill

of men charged after

pounding, toward the emergency

paranoia.

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