The Double or more Life of the Fake Heiress (Mirabella) novel Chapter 1816

Nellie hadn't ventured out of the clan in years, yet she knew the main base like the back of her hand. It didn't make sense for her to be caught so easily. Plus, Nellie was a night owl, and the sun had barely dipped below the horizon.

There was always the chance that someone else had somehow slipped into the base and got nabbed, which is why Mirabella figured it was a fifty-fifty situation.

“What’s the plan now?” James asked, picking up on how important this friend was to Mirabella. She wouldn’t have come all this way otherwise.

Mirabella took a moment, gazing at the sky as it darkened. “I need to get in there and check it out,” she said softly.

James, seemingly expecting her response, nodded. “I’ll come with you.”

Mirabella toyed with her phone, then put it away and turned to James. “I’ve got this on my own.”

James could almost feel her unspoken, “You’ll just slow me down.”

“I mean, two people might stand out too much,” Mirabella added, a bit more diplomatically.

James fell silent, mulling it over.

Clearing her throat, Mirabella shifted her attention to Wyatt, asking about other details.

Just then, a gentle thud hit the closed glass window of the restaurant, like something had lightly bumped against it.

Mirabella’s sharp senses kicked in, and she instinctively glanced towards the noise. There were only a few faded window decals, nothing else.

Wyatt heard it too. He walked over, peered outside cautiously, and slowly opened the window. Everything in the garden seemed perfectly normal.

With narrowed eyes, not sensing any human presence, Wyatt shut the window. But as he did, a gray blur darted out and vanished into a hole in the wall’s corner. Glancing at it, Wyatt saw it was just a mouse and shrugged it off. He returned inside, saying, “This place is pretty old. Probably just something falling against the window.”

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