Sweet Subterfuge

Chapter 30

After Amber was discharged from the hospital, Travis still did not send his parents

away.

He terminated her lease for the one–bedroom apartment she used to live in and

rented a two–bedroom apartment to make it easier for his parents to stay and take

care of her.

As for himself, he started coming home later and later as time went on. Even when he had finished all of his tasks, he would create excuses to work overtime just to

avoid being on the receiving end of Amber’s sudden rages.

Today was no different.

When Travis arrived at the restaurant, most of Larissa’s colleagues had already dispersed, leaving only a few who were sober to accompany Larissa until his arrival.

feel that the remaining people in the private

over there.” Larissa’s assistant pointed at Larissa, who was

and walked

wearing a thin, V–neck sweater, her shoulder–length hair tied into a ponytail, revealing her smooth,

a strange feeling in his

married her otherwise, even if it

her body were extremely attractive to him,

hooked by

time went on and the longer he remained in his illicit yet gentle affair with Amber, the more disgusted he felt with Larissa, who didn’t

desire and reached out to grab hold of

assistant stopped him hurriedly. “Don’t touch Ms. Seymour’s shoulder! She was injured some time ago and just took off her splint

nothing about the incident.

was stunned for a moment before guilt rushed through

at all. She glanced at him sideways, her words sharp. “What kind of husband are you? How did you not notice these kinds of details? Do you want to put her in the hospital again?”

was rendered speechless.

her slowly. He carried her all the way downstairs and let her lie in the back seat of his

out of the house, and he’d long used unethical means to transfer the ownership of the

realized that he did not know where she