Sweet Subterfuge

After dinner, Violet showed no intention of leaving. Larissa, who needed to rest and recover, went to bed promptly at 8.30 pm every night as Kevan wouldn’t allow her to stay up even for a minute longer.

Once Larissa was asleep. Violet turned off the TV, patted the empty space beside her, and beckoned Kevan to come over.

“Come and sit here. I want to talk to you.”

Kevan sat down with a puzzled expression. His mother’s serious expression made him feel a bit uneasy.

“What is it?”

“When do you and Larissa plan to have children? Violetasked without beating around the bush.

mentally prepared at all hence he

moment, he answered, “We don’t want

that time, even if they weren’t happy about it they wouldn’t have the idea

also didn’t want his mother to

said, taking

in shock, “Do you know what you’re

calm despite his mother’s agitation. “I

him a headache! But he wasn’t as extreme as you. He just discussed it with me, saying that we should wait a little longer to have children. I pretended to agree, but later I used a needle to poke holes in all the condoms in the house and successfully got pregnant with you. When you were just born, you were so ugly that

you cried, he would pick you up and soothe you. He had much more patience with you than I did! At that

was Kevan’s first time hearing about the secret of his birth and his father’s

Violet pondered for a moment and proposed a solution. “You can discuss it with Larissa and start by raising a pet first. Once you get used to the feeling of being a parent, you might not reject