Chapter 1801 Ignoble Intentions
Stumped at first, Juan then appeared a little nervous when he tried to answer. “About that… I guess we might have taken a different route.”
“How many other routes are there to ascend the mountain? Which one did you take?” Davin continued to press.
Unable to formulate an appropriate response, the stammering young man mumbled under his breath before he cooked up an excuse to step away.
“What firewood are you trying to gather when it’s pitch black out there!” Davin shouted after him.
It was obvious to Levant that Juan did not lose his way. Rather, the latter must have gone off to search for the treasure’s whereabouts.
What is it about that treasure that it has such a hold over the boy? It seems like he isn’t going to quit until he finds it! Wow. The son is obsessed with treasure hunting, and his old man’s caught in a booty trap. There’s just no end to trouble for this family!
Meanwhile, after Evan and Shermaine entered the secret chamber together, it unexpectedly sealed itself behind them, trapping them both inside the stone cavern.
Taken by surprise, Evan turned to Shermaine and regarded her frostily. “What happened?”
Shermaine purposefully feigned ignorance. “I have no idea either. Perhaps someone went inside my room and triggered the switch. That must be what caused the entrance to close!”
Evan surveyed the insides of the cavern and found nothing apart from a stone table and some chairs within.
“Didn’t you say that Davin’s in here? Where is he now?”
Shermaine regarded the man’s severe expression and the cold demeanor he had when he questioned her and stuttered, “I-I don’t know either! He had indeed been trapped inside here, so how am I to know why he disappeared? M-Maybe he’s escaped!”
That was when it dawned upon Evan that Davin was never here, and Shermaine was stringing him along all this while.
Damn this conniving woman!
“Open it up!”
Shermaine quietly smirked.
Open it up? It took such an effort to lure you in here so that I may have the chance to spend some alone time with you. I haven’t even shown you my bag of tricks yet, so why would I want to let you walk away now? Just wait till you become mine!
“It can’t be done!”
Shermaine’s was all misty-eyed, and her pristine orbs never wandered far while she studied every inch of him. The poise about him befitting only of a highly successful man charmed her to no end and made her suddenly feel that it might not be such a bad thing to couple up with him.
I’d probably never get tired of looking at this handsome face if we could spend the rest of my days together.
That sort of sentiment was unprecedented for Shermaine, so much so that she surprised herself for harboring such a thought. Her face reddened as she gazed at him longingly like a lovelorn puppy.
All that staring from her started to make Evan uncomfortable, so once more, he demanded that she open the door to the secret chamber.
“I’m telling you that it’s really impossible! The switch is out there, so no one will be able to unlock it from the inside.”
Unconvinced, Evan went on to search the surroundings. His piercing eyes scrutinized every inch of the uneven rock face in the hope of identifying some means of activating it.
“You should save it. We’re really stuck here until someone outside realizes that I’m missing and triggers the switch. That’s the only way we’ll be able to leave.”
Evan took one glance at her before he returned to his task of feeling along the walls in search of options.
Shermaine watched him with a pout, irked by how he seemed displeased to be in her company.
A man and woman within an enclosed space is a great opportunity to… Does he really have no designs whatsoever on me? No… I refuse to believe it!
No other man who she had encountered prior had ever not shown interest in her, and she saw it as a given that lustiness was in the nature of all men. As such, she could not accept the notion that this one individual before her harbored not the slightest ignoble intentions toward her.
She cleared her throat and went to walk up beside him. With her heart thumping furiously against her chest, she twiddled her fingers and spoke up shyly. “Hey… you should stop looking as there really aren’t any hidden switches on the inside of the cavern. Shall we chat for a bit instead?”
If Evan heard her, he did not act like it. Conversely, he continued to keep his focus on that protruding stone wall in front of him, tapping away and then carefully listening to the resultant echoes.
