Your Guise Is Slipping, Miss Pearl

Chapter 1246

Startled by the sudden presence, Rosalie nearly lost her balance. Turning around, she found herself face to face with the security guard, who had somehow managed to sneak up on her and was poised to pull her down from the wall

"You're quite the troublemaker, aren't you? I told you not to leave, yet here you are, climbing over the wall."

With the guard closing in, Rosalie shut her eyes, took a deep breath, and leaped. True to his word, Blake caught her securely.

"What's the matter with you two? I told you to stop, but you're still trying to leave?" The guard panted from behind the wall. "Get back here!"

Blake had no intention of obeying. He picked up their luggage, grabbed Rosalie's hand, and ran off

"You brats!" The guard's voice faded into the distance.

Now that they had left the neighborhood, the next challenge was to get a taxi to Rosalie's aunt's house. Standing by the roadside, observing the sparse traffic, Blake grew impatient. "Why don't we walk? Public transportation isn't operational during the epidemic."

day to walk, and we have all this luggage," Rosalie

try flagging down a

"I doubt that'll work. Everyone's rushing home now, and

it a shot." Blake wasted no

determined efforts, none of the passing cars

one, we'll have to consider other options," he

'You keep an eye on the luggage. I'll

looked up at him, puzzled. "Where are

about it. I'll be back soon," Blake replied

the time pass on her phone, growing increasingly anxious. Nowhere felt safe anymore.

doing something risky, Rosalie abandoned the luggage

than a few steps, Blake pulled up in a