Love’s Cunning Ruse

Chapter 230

Standing at the door was a lady. She was wearing black seven-inch stilettos, a white shirt paired with a formal skirt suit. Her long hair hung straight from her head to her waist. She wore black-framed glasses, her eyebrows slightly furrowed as she stared at the crowd at the door.

“Who are you guys looking for?” the lady asked.

Dylan glanced behind her. “Isn’t Bruce here?”

“You’ve got the wrong room,” the lady responded coldly, but still managed a polite smile.

“But our check-in record shows that the guest is Bruce. Are you his…” the manager queried her.

The lady glanced at the manager’s badge, “Does your hotel always disturb guests like this? Tracy, could you double-check with the front desk? We just checked in ten minutes ago.”

“This…” The manager was somewhat taken aback, turning to look at Kieran.

“Go check,” Kieran told the manager, then gave Dylan a look.

Dylan got the message and left with the manager. As soon as they entered the elevator, he immediately called the general manager of the hotel, instructing him to lock down the entire hotel and monitor everything.

After Tracy called the front desk and confirmed, she turned to Kieran apologetically, “Mr. Hernandez, Bruce was indeed staying here earlier, but he checked out half an hour ago. Miss Lisa checked in ten minutes ago.”

“Do you guys have any other business?” The lady named Lisa politely nodded at Kieran.

Suddenly, a magnetic voice came from inside the room, “What’s going on, Lisa?”

Before Lisa could answer, a man wearing a black shirt and light-colored gold-rimmed glasses came out of the room. He was wearing white cloth slippers, his short hair looking neat and tidy.

He walked up to Julie and Kieran, then stopped.

Julie’s eyes darkened. She looked at the man, asking in disbelief, “Kyle?”

Kyle also appeared taken aback that Julie was at the door. He narrowed his eyes slightly, then a look of joy appeared on his face, “Joyce?”

“It’s me. Kyle, what are you doing here?” Julie looked inside the room, as if searching for something.

Kyle glanced at Lisa, “You can go back in.”

Lisa gave Julie and Kieran a look before turning to leave.

“I’m guessing you’re Mr. Hernandez? We met years ago. Do you remember

his thirties. He looked mature and cultured, each word he uttered carried the air of a gentleman. The way he looked at Kieran and Julie was kind.

a trip. Julie insisted on dragging him to the supermarket to buy some necessities for the trip. It was

and Kieran were neighbors back then, Julie’s so-called brother-in-law rarely visited Kieran’s house. He only heard about Kyle occasionally from Julie. In Julie’s eyes back then, Kyle was the typical good boyfriend. From the details

suddenly broke up, even canceling

Kieran, indicating he wanted to shake

smile. He shook hands with Kyle, saying, “I was young

the wildest years,” Kyle opened the door, smiling at Julie

seat?”

nodded, then hooked her arm in Kieran’s, chuckling as they walked towards the room, “Why do you sound so mature now? You were only a few years older than us when you

then pointed to the sofa across, “Please, sit. I just arrived at Whispering Pines. I was planning to contact you guys after

someone to discuss business here in this room. We got a bit delayed on the way here, so he might have left because he couldn’t wait. We didn’t expect you

at Julie and Kieran, starting to chat with them. After a while, he turned to look out the window.

a lot,” he

smiled and calmly responded, “You’ve changed quite a

voice, Kyle turned his head, his

Kieran knew he was, sizing up Kyle and the

was a knock on the door Kyle furrowed his brows, gave Kieran a slight smile and said, “Maybe it’s the person you were supposed to do business

with

Kyle stood up and opened the

at the door were a few men in casual clothes. They showed their IDs, “National Security

their search. They didn’t find the person they were looking for, only saw Kieran and Julie

he won’t be coming back. Sorry for the disturbance. We’ll visit another time.”

and Kieran, nodding his

his arms, stepped into the elevator, then pulled out his phone to call Dylan, “The folks from the National Security Agency are here.”

got the surveillance footage. I’m waiting for

his gaze to the few agents from

room.” After searching the room,

footage, see how Lucian

through

He removed his gold-rimmed glasses from the bridge of his nose, and his eyes became sharper, like

car.

surveillance footage?”

room 1423. It was a stranger who brought Lucian upstairs, and he was also the one who checked in. He’s probably Bruce. Looks like they’re not planning to keep things on the down-low. The

with only Dylan’s