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…” she sniffled. “I just want

back, his face filled with melancholy.

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

I didn’t even know that they were dating. Then when my boy brought her

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 a more conservative generation, but I think a pretty woman working in a

12

insisted on marrying her. My husband and

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

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