Sweet Subterfuge by Trina Duo

Chapter 78

Dylan did not respond to her question, however.

“Your friend hasn’t made it, right?” He grinned like he knew everything.

A little stunned, Larissa shot back instinctively, “How did you know?”

“At this time, the elevators are packed with people. For Floor 45. I suppose even if the elevator’s coming down from the top, it wouldn’t stop there.”

Other than that, it was her reaction after receiving her friend’s text–she did not go inside but decided to buy coffee. That meant that she would still be waiting for quite a long time.

“Why don’t you tell your friend to stay where she is? We’ll send you guys up. You can try our company’s coffee too. It’s way better than any coffee you could buy out there!” Dylan looked proud.

Larissa was not comfortable enough to say yes. “We’ll just park ourselves at Starbucks for a while. You and Mr. Rogers can go about your business!”

“We just came down here for a walk. There’s no business to be had.” Dylan was very sincere, but Larissa was doubtful of his sincerity. After all, this did not look like a place where one would take a walk at. However, before she could think too deeply about it, Dylan turned and entered the building, waving at them from the automatic doors. “Come on!”

other two, and they could only

opened by card access. Kevan

the special passage controlled by

the security guard, “Remember Ms. Seymour here.

will use this

nodded and agreed at once.

brush off Dylan’s kindness, so she only smiled wryly at the guard before quickly walking past him

them without even looking. Confused, Larissa wanted to know why, but she held back

elevator.

number never changed.

is Mr. Rogers‘ private elevator,” Dylan explained. “It can only be

pointer finger on the fingerprint reader near the elevator doors, and they opened with

and Kevan pressed the button for the

the corner of the car.

the other corner when Dylan pushed her, so she ended up falling

the indicator panel but had kept an eye on