Sweet Subterfuge

Chapter 36

Mrs. Hardy’s sudden move shocked everyone present.

She wrapped her arms around Larissa’s legs and shook her entire body vigorously. Larissa had never seen such a scene before. For a moment, she was unsure whether she should turn and leave or help her up first.

Mrs. Hardy raised her head and looked at her tearfully.

“Lari, come with me to the hospital! Just come and see Travis!”

Lari?

How intimate.

This was the first time Mrs. Hardy had called her that.

Whatever illness Travis had, it must be serious.

only she could save him

leukemia and needed her to donate her bone marrow for him? Or perhaps one

was, her answer was the same. “I’m not going,” she told

so far as

family had treated her in the first

crawled toward her on all fours and hugged her right leg

please! Consider

no longer related.” Larissa tried to pull her leg out of Mrs. Hardy’s grasp, but the moment she tried to move, the old woman’s

pester me, why don’t you go beg Amber to save his life? I dare say you’ll have much

she spoke. “It’s all that evil bitch’s

of

the situation in front of them, but it didn’t

could she make an old woman kneel at her

gone too

“Unbelievable!”

sound of camera

front of them, about three bystanders raised their phones and

people would record the entire incident and post it online. Worse still, they might take the situation out of