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.

fucking door!” The woman

and sharp. Her pitch was

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

ghosts or supernatural creatures, but when faced with something like this in the middle of the night, she couldn’t help but feel her scalp tingle

you?” She wrapped her arms around herself and asked, her

ignored her question and kept on shouting, “Open the door! Open the

did not

didn’t even dare to roll down her car window as she tried

started to move again slowly. Taking into consideration the person who was just outside her car,

her palms repeatedly hitting Larissa’s car window two times harder

Open the door!”

woman’s shouts sounded like the devil’s chants in her ears. Larissa gritted her

and tried to not

the guard did not raise

had no choice but to stop the

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

a resident of Foxtail Garden. She tried to force her way in, and we called the police after we failed to reason with her.

and were high society figures, the security in that area was especially tight. Outsiders who wished to enter either had to use an access card or have a

no access card and knew no one inside who could let

in.