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.

I just want…” she sniffled. “I just want to apologize…to apologize

her back, his face filled with

over. “Try to calm down, and then tell us in detail what misunderstanding there is between

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

husband and I were against this marriage. The first reason was the one I mentioned, that our boy didn’t tell us about it. The other one was that I did not like my daughter-in-law’s job. Maybe it’s because we’re from

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she’s not a decent person, but my son insisted on marrying her. My husband and

thought that my relationship with my daughter-in-law would get better after the marriage, but who knew that it would get worse?”

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 they call a childfree