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

quickly explained the situation, to which Julien

small

she had to take the risk. With the backing of Julien and Hayden, and the promise from Zenith,

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

agreed to Julie’s insistence.

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task seemed simple enough: leave the black box at the doorstep of the locked room. Julie took a

the black box out and put it on the floor, where

no one around, but the place was a bit too

task was so

a pair of shiny leather shoes in her line of sight. Looking up, she saw a well-tailored black suit, and chin

building across the hotel, Zenith and Bruce watched through binoculars. Upon seeing Julie startled, Bruce asked, “Sir, should

room 2404, just in case.

his head,

her head, Julie was terrified. “You…you…” This man was

moving closer. Julie’s hand hovered over the black button on the watch, but she didn’t press it.

you.” He said, stopping at a safe distance.

She wondered if she should press the button, but she wasn’t sure if she had completed her

you

a gun daily,” he replied, stepping back.

box tightly,

and asked cautiously, “Do… do you live

was referring to room 2404.

right away, instead, he looked at her, a bit of tension in his gaze, and asked, “What are

tucked it out of sight, how did he still see

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

about the black box in her possession. His

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 escape from that island were thanks to Kieran’s timely arrival.

that never mess with this man, and particularly his associate, Kleist. Thankfully, Kleist was not here today. After all, he was the