Sweet Subterfuge by Trina Duo

Chapter 33

Larissa instinctively lowered her head.

Seeing as her forceful attempts at entering were not working, Amber started crying. ” I need to see my uncle urgently! Please! You have to let me in! This is a matter of life and death. If I can’t see my uncle, I might as well be dead! Do you really have the heart to watch me meet my end without doing anything?”

Snot and tears trickled down her cheeks. She looked particularly pitiful.

Slight discomfort colored the guard’s face, but he remained professional. “These are the orders I have from my higher–ups. I’m sorry, Miss, I really cannot let you in.”

Amber hurled her backpack into the guardhouse. The guard took a step back in fright.

“My phone, wallet, and ID are all in this bag. Please, I’m begging you! Take these in exchange and let me in. I really am not a bad person!”

The guard bent down and picked her backpack up before handing it back to her wordlessly. His stance was firm and there was no changing his mind.

“Beep, beep-”

A car came from behind and sounded its horn, most probably due to the blockage on

the road.

to let the car behind her pass, but it wasn’t up to her

she could leave.

held up by Amber’s fit and could not walk up to explain the current

caught a glimpse of a figure walking toward them through her

her car and the

going on?” The icy voice was

tone–Larissa was more than

immediately straightened and greeted him

widened in shock, her mouth slightly agape. She pointed at him for

lips curled in a slight smile. “What a

Amber stunned

you know this

do.” Kevan

she once met turned into “Mr. Rogers” all of a sudden, but she did not have the heart

his arm and resumed her initial overbearing attitude. “See? I

face darkened

and subtly tried to remove his arm from her.

between Amber and Kevan before he asked tentatively. “So- should I let this lady in, Mr. Rogers?”

“Let her