Love Slave to My Devil CEO Boss 18+ novel Chapter 321

While trying to tell myself to calm down and act normal, I headed towards the exit of the archive. The same guard was there at the exit and that made me feel quite nervous. It went without saying that I had never stolen or inappropriately ‘borrowed’ a document like this before.

I flashed the guard a little smile before casually walking past. After taking a few steps away. I honestly thought that I had made it; however, things didn’t quite end as smoothly as I had hoped.

“Little lady, if you put that back where you got it from, I will look the other way and pretend that this never happened…” the guard muttered in a low voice.

My body froze at his words when I realized that my stupid attempt to smuggle the document out had failed spectacularly. He must have been watching on the security camera and caught on to what I was up to. It was regretful but I had no other choice except to return the document from where it came from.

“I’m sorry…” I mumbled a soft apology as I turned around.

To my surprise, the guard didn’t seem angry. Actually, he had a lazy look on his face like he couldn’t care any less.

“It’s not really fine, but it’s fine. I have no idea why any of these old papers interest you or why you would want it so badly that you would go as far as to steal it…” he said before shrugging his shoulders.

“Can’t we just say that I’m borrowing it?” I asked as I tried to push my luck.

“Put it back, little lady…” the guard snapped without giving my suggestion any thought.

“I would very much prefer it if you could really look the other way while I silently walk out of here…” I suggested before showing him a sweet smile.

“Stop pushing your luck. I can’t let you take anything out of here; however, you can snap up some photos…” he replied in a firm voice.

“Right…” I whispered before letting out a sigh of resignation.

“That’s the best that I can do for you. After you’re done, please put the papers back where you found them,” he instructed as he glared at me as if to make sure that he was getting his message across.

“Yes, Sir…” I replied with a fake salute gesture of my hand.

I could feel his gaze on me as I almost stomped all the way back to the cabinet where I had found the document earlier. Although I knew that I wasn’t supposed to try to steal it and that the guard had really been lenient on me by just forcing me to put it back in its place, I still felt like it was such a shame that I couldn’t take the document with me.

“Goodbye for now…” I whispered to the document as if it had ears that could hear me.