Sweet Subterfuge by Trina Duo

Chapter 24

As if someone had cast a spell on her, Larissa lay there, unmoving, watching as the car sped closer and closer toward her.

A rational part of her urged her to run, but her body refused to oblige.

The screech of brakes engaging pierced the air.

And then, it felt like the whole world had stilled.

Some passersby covered their eyes in fear. Some of them turned their gaze to the

scene.

She didn’t know how much time had passed. Maybe it had been a few seconds, or a few minutes-perhaps it had been ten minutes or tens of minutes. Slowly, sound seeped into Larissa’s ears again.

Unexpectedly, she had not been hit. The car’s bumper had barely touched her when it stopped completely. There wasn’t even a single scratch on her.

Due to the incident, the remaining cars that passed by had slowed down as the number of people gathered around gradually increased, trapping her in the middle of the crowd.

“Miss, are you alright?”

“Can you

stand?”

haven’t lost your mind,

interjected one by one, hurling questions

She felt her heart rate slowly return to normal, having stopped momentarily

stranger reached out. Larissa placed her hand in his and stood up with great difficulty, leaning onto his

She forced out a

was from the pain or from her fright. Even her

take you to the hospital for a checkup. I need to be responsible if there’s anything wrong at all.” His expression

Chapter 24

“What are you responsible

parked silver Mercedes not that far away from where they stood. “Don’t you remember? I almost hit

earlier. She’d only seen the

driver.

not your fault. You don’t have to be responsible for anything.”

and searched for Janine and

was, but the passengers in

driver told her, “Those three cowards ran away a long time ago!” He pointed in the direction where they had gone. “They went that way!”

impossible for her to try to run

her arm. “Since the hospital is just here, you should go in for a checkup! I’ll pay for it.” Seeing as she was about to refuse, he added, “Don’t say

check on her injuries anyway, so she followed