Sweet Subterfuge

Chapter 222

Kevan continued reassuring her, saying, “Our marriage will remain confidential and will only be revealed to our respective families. We can terminate it anytime if you have any issues with my family.”

Larissa no longer hesitated and replied, “Deal!”

New Year’s Day was a public holiday, and naturally, the City Hall was closed. However, Kevan somehow managed to find a way to expedite their marriage registration on that day. While Larissa was quite comfortable throughout the whole process since she had been through it before, Kevan was the “novice” and was overly nervous.

The photographer even had to remind him multiple times to relax his stiff smile during the photo session. In the end, they could only select one photo where Kevan looked relatively natural from

the dozen or so shots taken.

Once they received the marriage certificate, she briefly glanced at it and casually slipped it into her backpack. On the other hand, he stared at their wedding photo for a long time, even gently caressing the edges of the photo with his fingers. Somehow, he couldn’t suppress his smile, Nonetheless, Larissa thought he was simply amused and didn’t read too much into his action.

Just so

and sat in the passenger seat. He

achieved

oblivious to his conversation with Dylan. Only then did he feel at ease and

have dinner together tonight?” Dylan

gripped his phone tightly as he wanted to slow down his racing heartbeat.

few mischievous smiley emojis, and Kevan knew that his friend was probably overthinking but couldn’t

even considerately pressed “20” for him,

in confusion. He remained expressionless as he replied,

moving.

mean?” She became even

hand. “We are already married, so

no need for that,” Larissa frowned. “No one from the Seymour family will know even if we