Sweet Subterfuge by Trina Duo

Chapter 32

Larissa contemplated for a very long time before finally summoning the courage to call Travis.

Yet, despite having made several calls in a row, Travis never answered.

At night, when Larissa returned home after work, she was stopped by someone at the entrance of Foxtail Garden.

The sky was getting dark, and the figure stood against the light. All Larissa could make out was a skinny figure, her arms outstretched.

It seemed to be a woman.

Before she could cause any accidents, Larissa slammed on the brakes.

Her car stopped about ten feet away from the figure.

Larissa was stunned for about two seconds before she felt her heart rate slow to a normal pace.

When she’d recovered from her shock and looked back to where the figure was standing earlier, there was only dust dancing under the dim, yellowish light. Where had the figure gone?

Larissa was questioning if what she had seen was nothing but a hallucination when she heard the sound of someone trying to pull her car door open at the passenger’s side. And when whoever it was realized that they couldn’t pry open her door, they started knocking on her window frantically.

door!” The woman shouted from the

and sharp. Her pitch was so high that

glass on her door was reflective, but Larissa could not properly discern the woman’s features. Instead, the hazy reflection on the glass showed a dark silhouette with disheveled long hair–it was a rather terrifying sight.

creatures, but when faced with something like this in the middle of the night, she couldn’t help but feel her scalp tingle as her skin crawled with

you?” She wrapped her arms around

shouting, “Open the door! Open the door! Just open the damn door!”

did not open the door.

roll down her car window as she tried to turn her car keys, her

who was just outside her car,

closely, her palms repeatedly hitting Larissa’s car

Open the

like the devil’s chants in her

tried to not

did not raise the barricade as he usually did.

but to stop the

window at the driver’s side halfway, just enough for her to make eye contact with the security guard in

force her way in, and we called the police after we failed to reason with her. Don’t worry, the police are on their way. If you could just wait for a moment until she leaves, Miss, I’ll let

especially tight. Outsiders who wished to enter either had to use an access card or have a relative

no access card and knew no

in.