“What the hell do you mean?” Larissa was no longer able to keep calm, and she leaped to her feet, scaring the waiter who had brought her drink over.

“Your—your lemon tea, miss.” The waiter put the cup on the table nervously, his eyes darting between the two before leaving. Even then, he kept turning back to look at them.

Having been interrupted like that, Larissa recognized that she was in a public setting and somewhat restrained her discontent.

“I paid the down payment, and I’ve been paying the monthly mortgage too. If the house has nothing to do with me, then who else could it belong to?” She struggled to keep her voice low enough so that only the two of them could hear.

Hearing this, Travis unhurriedly retrieved yet another document from his ever-present briefcase.

“Take a look at this.”

On the top of the first page, bold letters announced the document to be an agreement for the gifting of property. Larissa’s gaze stopped at the title for two seconds before she began reading quickly—

Gifter: Larissa Seymour (hereinafter referred to as Party A”)

Giftee: Travis Hardy (hereinafter referred to as Party B)

The gift was precisely the house that they lived in after their marriage.

“What are you showing me this for? You want me to sign this?” Larissa tossed the papers back at him with a cold smile. “I’m telling you, Hardy, dream on!”

fact, there was a triumphant smirk on his face that he could not hide. He turned to the last page of the document and pushed it toward Larissa again. His index finger pointed at the place where the signatures were meant to be and said, “Take a closer look,

was a flamboyant signature that said her name. The penmanship was one that she was most familiar with, and it did

ago! After a bit of calculating, it must

her since the beginning! And yet she had been kept in the dark

so angry that she was trembling. She finally managed to speak through gritted

she could not recall seeing

few words. “You’ve given me the house, so it’s mine. Based on the law, I don’t have the obligation to give you even

went on his phone for a moment before showing a photo to Larissa. “I’ve completed the property transfer procedure. This is the

Travis’s

In an instant, she was unable

his knuckles on the table and brought her back to reality. “Hurry up and sign the agreement. I

it,” Larissa said. Her voice was light but firm. Before she figured out all the fishy stuff in this deal, she would never let Travis have it

serious?” Travis scowled irritably. “Even if you don’t sign it, the house is still mine. It’s

wasting time with you. Let’s see

gnashed his

it on the table. She then picked up her bag and rose

what my parents are like. Aren’t you afraid they’ll cause a scene

course Larissa was afraid. But she could not show it, or else Travis would

face. “If they have decided to use their own lives in exchange for

“Murder is against the law!” he hissed in a

can get them to try.” Larissa casually tossed out those words and quickly

with Travis. Not for any other reason but that she simply did not want to have anything to do with him anymore.

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