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.

“What’s

explained the situation, to which Julien replied, “I thought it

pointing at a small black button, “If you’re in danger, press this. We’ll be there in ten seconds.”

task, so she had to take the risk. With the backing of Julien and Hayden, and

about we check the surveillance of this floor? According to Zenith, we’re not supposed to leave,

to Julie’s

**

Julie 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

inside. Julie took the black box out and put it on the floor, where someone should see it as soon as he opened the door.

was no one around, but the place was a bit too quiet compared with the bustle of the banquet

the task was so easy!”

of sight. Looking up, she saw a well-tailored black suit, and chin of a

through binoculars. Upon seeing Julie startled, Bruce asked, “Sir, should we

were stationed around room 2404, just

his head,

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

bent down, moving closer. Julie’s hand hovered over the black button on the watch,

you.” He said, stopping at

was having a streak of bad luck. She wondered if she should press the button,

asked, “Are you carrying a gun today?”

daily,”

the black box tightly,

hunch and asked cautiously, “Do… do you live here?”

to room 2404.

respond right away, instead, he looked at her, a bit of tension in his gaze, and

had carefully tucked it out of sight, how did he still see

up. Zenith, unable to text Julie at the moment, could only watch the standoff from a

the black box in her possession.

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

and particularly his associate, Kleist. Thankfully, Kleist was not here today. After all,