Sweet Subterfuge

Larissa was confused by the accusation. But as she was someone who had quite some experience working here, she had met more unreasonable guests.

Therefore, she was able to react quickly and gave her an apologetic smile. “My apologies, Ms. Gallagher. There must be a misunderstanding here. I just got back, and I am not quite sure what’s going on. Could you give me some time to look into the situation?”

At the same time, her mind was racing. The Regal Dynasty was a proper hotel with an established background. It would not be possible for them to forcibly evict someone without cause. But seeing the guards and cleaning staff present, the eviction did not seem false either.

Larissa could think of no one else who had the power to evict guests other than the general manager.

She was just about to call him for clarification about the situation when the door to the room at the end of the corridor opened.

Dylan emerged in his pajamas. His was stone-faced and exuded a cold aura similar to Kevan’s. His geniality in the morning was nowhere to be seen.

Thinking that they had disturbed his rest, Larissa quickly apologized. “Forgive me, Mr. Shields. There is a situation that we need to take care of at the moment. If you find the noise bothersome, I can have someone put you up in a different room.”

However, Dylan waved her off and smiled. “Don’t worry about it.”

Larissa was totally confused once again. If it was fine, then why was he upset earlier?

Dylan walked straight up to Karin, who clearly knew him.

“M—Mr. Shields?” Her previous arrogance was gone and replaced by anxiety.

“Ms. Gallagher.” Dylan was not as nice to her as he was to Larissa. His tone was polite and indifferent. “Mr. Rogers was the one who requested your eviction. As for why…” His smile did not reach his eyes. “I’m sure you know.”

Karsyn froze and steadily turned pale.

“If you don’t want this to get any worse, I suggest you check

seconds before she turned and went back into her room. Soon, she emerged with her

cap that was pulled down as much as possible. A large pair of sunglasses as well as a mask hid her face from view. She did not say a word

the security guards left, and the cleaning staff began

were left in

on leave?” Dylan asked

She went straight into the topic. “Are you available at the moment? I would like to have you

for a moment before letting out

“Sure,” he said.

…

room. He beckoned her to sit on the couch

her head and said, “No,

on the side. “You’d like a divorce?” he

“specialized in handling divorce cases,” so being able to guess Larissa’s goal was not that hard.

was as if she was exposing her wounds to someone else. She straightened up discreetly and clenched

for the reason why. However, he simply became more professional and

“I’m in need of

bit surprised. “How would

the contents of the divorce agreement, and Dylan raised

about the house? It won’t be

Larissa thought about the house, her rage began to ramp up. She did her best to control it,

looked interested in what

it. However, just a few hours ago, my former husband showed me the papers for a gifting of property agreement that I had apparently signed and said that I had gifted the house

the papers in person?” he

it does seem to be by my

didn’t sign it, then it’s good. But on the off chance that it is… Unless you can

did not even know when she signed the damn papers. How was

are genuine, the transfer process he went through is definitely illegal. We can hold onto this point and do some digging. For all we know, we could implicate a bunch of people. By that time, there will be many who will want