Sweet Subterfuge

Chapter 72

Any sense of drowsiness vanished entirely, and Larissa was very much awake.

She no longer had the mood to read the rest of the messages and retrieved her tablet from the bedside table drawer. She then found last night’s episode of ” The Mediators Room”.

Travis’ parents arrived at the set as the “mediation representatives”. They had mournful looks on their faces, and they looked fragile too. Janine’s eyes were also red from crying, and she could only squint through the swelling.

The host asked, “What would you like me to mediate for you?” Before he had even finished, Janine had already begun to wipe at her tears.

just want to apologize…to apologize to

sighed and gently patted her back,

them over. “Try to calm down, and then tell us in

wiped at the tear tracks on her face and sat blankly for a few minutes. before she continued, “Actually, this is all my fault. My son is the head of the technical department of a brokerage firm. By a stroke of luck, he met my daughter-in-law during work. She is a manager of a big hotel in Covenford and is very beautiful. My son fell for her at first sight, but my husband and I didn’t even know that they were dating. Then when my boy brought her home, he said that they were going to get married. I couldn’t accept this at that time. Mothers would know. You know how that feels like when your boy suddenly decides to run off with someone else without even telling you. I didn’t even know what my daughter-in-law’s background was. Anyway, I was really sad and a little angry. So, I was not kind to my daughter-in-law, and I supposed I gave her the impression of a “wicked mother-in-law”, and she did

it. The other one was that I did not like my daughter-in-law’s job. Maybe it’s

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but my son insisted on marrying her. My husband and I have always respected his opinions,

who knew that it would get worse?”

if she had some kind of health condition. So, during the new year celebrations, I thought of taking her to the hospital for a checkup, but she refused me in a very drastic way, and even called me a ‘psycho’. After they went back to Covenford, I tried calling my daughter-in-law again, but she refused to answer. My son told me in secret that she was what