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 my

and gently patted her back,

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

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.

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

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

would get better after the marriage, but who knew that it would get worse?” When Janine got to this point, she choked up and

a very drastic way, and even called me a