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 going on?”

Julien replied, “I

her wristwatch and put it around Julie’s wrist, pointing at a small black button, “If you’re in danger, press this. We’ll

to reveal 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

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

to

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box at the doorstep of the

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

no one around, but the place was a bit too quiet compared

realize the task was so easy!”

sight. Looking up, she saw a well-tailored black suit, and chin of a man. The man suddenly looked down,

Zenith and Bruce watched through binoculars. Upon seeing Julie startled, Bruce asked, “Sir, should we send someone?”

around room

shook his head,

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

black button on the watch, but she

you.” He said, stopping at a safe

a streak of bad luck. She wondered if she should press the button, but she wasn’t sure if she had completed her task.

you carrying a

gun daily,” he replied, stepping

the black box tightly, hoping he wouldn’t

had a daring hunch and asked

referring to room

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

out of sight, how did he still see it?

giving it up. Zenith,

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

This man had left her 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

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