Unmasking the Heiress by Sisi Yea

Chapter 439

It snagged Evangeline's attention, and she picked up without a second thought.

"Could it be an update on Lydia's location?" Evangeline asked, her voice thrumming with hope.

Since the day she had scoped out Sunny Glow Beauty Salon and sketched out a map of its layout for Snow Wolf, all had been quiet on his end. That unexpected call had her mind racing. Could it be the break they needed?

She was right. A cheerful male voice greeted her from the other end.

"Yes, we should've had news sooner, but we hit a snag Snow Wolf admitted, pausing for a moment before diving back in. "The map you handed over was just a slice of the salon's real footprint. We had to crack their system wide open to snatch the hidden part of the blueprint they were sitting on.

"Now we're pretty sure there's a secret door tucked away in the back of the director's office. And Lydia, the one you've been chasing shadows to find, is holed up in a room right behind that door."

Lydia's disappearance had stretched on far too long, and the surge of relief at the prospect of finding her was too intense for words.

her down? Looks like my crew

through the government's digital defenses like a ghost. No matter how you sliced it,

It's not that your subordinates are

not help but crack up, and she shot back, "Does that mean you were able to figure it out because you're even more

was not exactly a gold star in the vocabulary

about being sly. I've just got a horseshoe or

call short. She made a beeline for the bathroom,

deal? Did she forget

brain, she did not

wheelchair and all. Even the coffee Julieta had brought

gone.

she flagged down Julieta. "Hey, where'd Alex go? Did he vanish

Alex Gordon had to rush off because of some urgent business. He zoomed out of here so fast that I didn't even think to stop him. If I'd known you'd be

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