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.

arrived, Larissa spotted Andrew and

also three uniformed police officers with them in the room

the door twice out of habit. All heads turned

for the intrusion, my name is Larissa Seymour. I’m the

and remembered her clearly.

regained her composure. “In that case, that’s perfect.” She

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

condition?” Kara

after the search, I want you to apologize to our

was taken aback by Larissa’s request, slight displeasure coating her features.

on the other hand, questioned Larissa directly.

thrown the necklace away before coming

cameras too.” Larissa remained calm, having dealt with many similar incidents in the past. “Our hotel has surveillance

turned upside down too, but the necklace was nowhere to be found.

surveillance cameras.

the security