Sweet Subterfuge

“There’s no need.” Larissa declined Edmund’s offer with a reasonable excuse. “It’s just a game to pass the lime. Regardless of whether I’m good or bad at poker, as the youngest, I should be the one to lose.”

Her words Immediately gained unanimous praise from Marla and Nancy.

“What a sensible child!”

“Young people nowadays should have such awareness!”

Frankly, Violet didn’t care whether Larissa lost money or not. Her insistence on having Kevan come upstairs was to prevent him from spending time with Ruby, but she was a step too late.

Violet fell a throbbing headache coming on.

Even though Kevan assured her that nothing was going on between him and Ruby, she was still worried that problems would arise. More importantly, she was afraid that Larissa would overthink,

Meanwhile..

“Thanks for agreeing to come out with me.” Ruby said to Kevan,

“It’s nothing.” Kevan replied with a faint smile as he drove.

Silently, Ruby stared at his side profile for a long time. Suddenly, she blurted. “Do you The Larissa?”

an eyebrow in surprise.

as if he didn’t understand her

more specifically, “Did you marry Larissa because you

moment. Kevan was silent. Then, he put on a deliberate

him mercilessly. “You don’t actually like her, do you? The only reason you married her was because you had to

you insist on thinking that way,

that she was on the right

dug her long nails into the flesh of her palm, forcing herself to

voice trembled as if she was close to lears. “To be honest, I haven’t been

straight line. Keeping his eyes

lowered her head and wiped the tears

side. In fact, it’s more

his eyes and said with disapproval. “When we go

looked up in a hurry and grabbed Kevan’s arm desperately, “Don’t let him know about this! He will hit me if he finds

his voice growing colder, “What, he dared to

hersell from sobbing. She covered her mouth with

further. “Where

shook her