Sweet Subterfuge by Trina Duo

Chapter 19

Her assistant’s tone was urgent as she spoke. “There’s an emergency at the hotel. You need to come over and handle it in person.”

Reluctantly, Larissa climbed out of her bed and changed. She hadn’t even gotten the time to put on her makeup before she hastily drove to the Regal Dynasty Hotel.

Her assistant was waiting for her in the parking lot. As soon as she saw Larissa’s car, she immediately stepped forward and opened the car door for her.

“What’s going on?” Larissa asked before she had even stepped out of her car.

“One hour ago, the guest who checked into room 2510 last night, called and said that she had lost one of her gold necklaces and that she suspected that it was stolen by one of our cleaning staff. I asked the two cleaning staff who were responsible for cleaning up the room and they said that they never saw any gold necklace when they were in the room. The guest called the police and they’re now upstairs, trying to make sense of the situation,” the assistant explained as she matched Larissa’s footsteps, her heels clicking noisily on the floor as they walked quickly to the hotel.

“Room 2510?” Larissa raised an eyebrow.

If she wasn’t mistaken, that was the room Andrew and his girlfriend were in.

both arrived, Larissa spotted Andrew and his girlfriend

the room and the two cleaning staff from the

out of habit. All heads

name is Larissa Seymour. I’m the manager of

had met her the day before and remembered her clearly. She just hadn’t known who she

you Andrew’s sister-in-law, then?” Kara was a little surprised, but she quickly regained her composure. “In that case, that’s perfect.” She pointed at the cleaning staff standing helplessly on one side. “I want their persons searched at once and their work area scouted.”

agreed. “But under one condition.” Her words turned sharp.

condition?” Kara asked.

search, I want you to apologize

expect that. She was taken aback by Larissa’s request, slight

other hand, questioned Larissa directly. “What if they hid the

necklace away before coming here because they’re afraid of being sent to jail?”

incidents in the past. “Our hotel has surveillance cameras in all

personally searched the two cleaning staff, but she couldn’t find anything on them. Their work area had been turned upside down too, but the necklace was nowhere to be found. Eventually, they went

surveillance cameras.

entire afternoon watching the security footage but found