Love’s Cunning Ruse

Chapter 299

Kieran saw Julie’s text message, his expression morphing into a tight frown.

Flavia, noticing their troubled expressions, voiced her concern, “Can I be of any help?”

Julie looked up at Flavia, a small smile playing on her lips, “No, thank you.”

Flavia chuckled, “Well, you’re a friend of my sister, so that makes you a friend of mine.”

At this, Kenton, notorious famous wife-protector, nodded in agreement, “My wife’s got a point there.”

He then turned to Hayden, “Are you going to say anything or just continue being mute?”

“No.” Hayden replied, his tone cold and distant.

Flavia tugged at Kenton’s sleeve, a look that screamed ‘why are you provoking him?’ on her face.

Julien seemed to be oblivious to all the commotion.

Soon, another text message buzzed on Julie’s phone, this time from Zenith, “Julie, go alone. Leave the black box at room 2404. I promise you’ll be safe.”

“I’ll go,” Kieran offered, reaching for Julie’s phone, but she held onto it tightly, not handing over the black box.

Her phone rang again, another text from Zenith, “Ker, Trust me.”

Only Lucian called Kieran by that nickname, not even Amanda used it. Julie’s phone had been delivered just before the banquet by Zenith’s people.

She pried Kieran’s fingers off her phone, looking at him with a determined gaze, “If Zenith is Lucian, we have to trust him. We must trust him.”

The black box contained a USB drive, and if it were as safe as Zenith claimed, he could have delivered it himself or sent someone else. But he insisted Julie do it, indicating the importance and safety of her doing so, and the risk involved if anyone else did.

Kieran understood this.

Their argument over the text messages left the others confused.

asked, “What’s

to which Julien replied,

around Julie’s wrist, pointing at a small black button,

all truths once Julie completed her task, so she had to take the risk. With the backing of Julien and Hayden, and the promise from Zenith, she

we’re not

to Julie’s insistence.

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approached room 2404, she was careful and alert. The task seemed simple enough: leave the black box at the doorstep of the locked room. Julie took a deep breath and finally

box out and put it on the floor, where someone

around, but the place was a bit too quiet

task was so easy!”

she saw a well-tailored black suit, and chin of a man. The man suddenly looked down, showing a face that

hotel, Zenith and Bruce watched through binoculars. Upon seeing Julie startled, Bruce asked,

men were stationed around room 2404, just in

his head, “Wait.”

man who once pointed a gun at her head, Julie was terrified. “You…you…”

moving closer. Julie’s hand hovered over the black button on

you.” He said, stopping at a

bad luck. She wondered if she should press the button, but

“Are you carrying

carries a gun daily,” he replied,

Julie held onto the black box tightly,

and asked

was referring to

didn’t respond right away, instead, he looked at her, a bit of tension in his gaze, and asked, “What

of sight, how did he

the box in her hand, prepared to fight tooth and nail before giving it up. Zenith, unable to text Julie at the moment, could

stood up, not pressing further about the black box in her possession. His voice

on a deserted island, a place where no man dared to venture, full of with unknown and potentially harmful creatures. All he had left her with was a gun with a few remaining bullets. Her survival and

with this man, and particularly his associate, Kleist. Thankfully, Kleist was not here today. After all, he was the one who had nearly ended her