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!”

at the other two,

only be opened by card access. Kevan and Dylan never wore ID tags

always used the special passage controlled by

security guard, “Remember Ms. Seymour here.

will use this passage too.”

nodded and

trouble, but she could not brush off Dylan’s kindness, so she only smiled wryly at the guard before quickly walking past him with her

them without even looking. Confused,

kept walking forward until they stopped before a single elevator. It was stuck on the first floor, and the

number never changed.

“It can only

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

at once, and Kevan pressed the

the corner of the car.

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

indicator panel but had kept an eye on Larissa