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.

to get any worse, I

clearly struggling with herself for a few seconds before she turned and went back into her room. Soon, she emerged with

a 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

left, and the cleaning staff began cleaning

were left in the

on leave?” Dylan

no energy left to wonder why he knew about her being on leave. She went straight into the topic. “Are you available at

moment before letting out a knowing smile.

“Sure,” he said.

…

beckoned her to sit on the couch and asked, “Water?”

shook her head and said, “No,

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

a lawyer who “specialized in handling divorce cases,” so being

bashful. It was as if she was exposing her wounds to someone else.

she expected, Dylan did not ask for the reason why. However, he simply became more professional and asked, “Has

“I’m in need of your services precisely because

“How would your former

of the divorce agreement, and Dylan raised an

the house? It won’t be divided?”

where the problem is.” The moment Larissa thought about the house, her rage began to ramp up. She did her best to

in what she had to say.

But the deed had both our names on 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 to him. Moreover, he even went through the procedure to get the name on the deed changed to just his

“Did you sign the papers in

penmanship, it does seem to be by my hand.

penmanship verification first. If you really didn’t sign it, then it’s good. But on the off chance that it is… Unless you can prove that you were deceived by your former husband and were unaware of the contents of the

a dark abyss. She did not even know when she signed the damn papers. How was she supposed to prove

still approach it from another angle.” Having sensed her sadness, Dylan showed her a comforting smile. “Regardless of whether or not the papers 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