Husband you've abandoned me Fine I'll focus on raising my son novel Chapter 288

Chapter 288: Now or never

"Stay here, let me go and investigate," he said. He then quickly went toward it. The guard who had been heading towards the gate for the shift exchange also joined and went to join the other guide.

My distraction had worked. I looked back at the guards as they both went behind the bushes I had come from to investigate.

With no one at the gate I ran towards it. The next 10 seconds were extremely crucial.

I reached the gate I took out the keys i had stolen and quickly began.

My fingers were shaking as I quickly began trying the keys. There were ten keys in total attached to the same hook. As I tried to unlock the gate, I realised I was on camera. They could see what I was doing. Hopefully, they hadn’t noticed me yet.

The first key didn’t work.

I felt my heart rate increase as I tried the next one. For god’s sake, why were there so many keys? Would I have enough time to check all ten of them? Hopefully i didn’t have to go that far.

5 seconds passed, and the screaming noise suddenly stopped. My heart sank in my chest. They had found my phone. Fuck. They were going to find me here soon.

I heard the voices of the guards. "Whose phone is this?"

"Why was it left here?"

If I didn’t get this door open, I was truly fucked, I thought to myself. Even if I tried to abort the mission and return to the mansion.

I was on camera trying to unlock this gate with the keys I stole, and I would have to explain why my phone was in the gardens. Keith was going to find out, and there was no telling if I had an excuse he would believe.

The fourth key failed. I then moved on to the fifth. My quivering hands were not helping the situation, as I felt I was going to collapse from how much I was panicking.

It was now or never. I would just have to go through with the escape. I couldn’t focus on failing right now.

I tried the sixth key and was met with the sound click unlocking. A massive wave of relief came over me.

Oh god! I was so terrified. I opened the gate and quickly went through it.

I made a final glance back into the estate gardens and saw the silhouette of the guards coming round from around the bushes where the phone had been.

So far, no one has seen me yet. I quickly closed the gate behind me and ran, dropping the keys to the floor. i didn’t have time to lock the door behind me.

Go! go! go! I yelled in my mind. My legs sprinted across the front yard and onto the road. I noticed the estate cameras as they were capturing me escaping.

"Where are the keys?!" I heard one of them say from inside the estate walls.

"Why is the gate unlocked!?" I heard another guard yell.

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