Sweet Subterfuge

Chapter 410

Larissa made a call to Bethany’s mother. Regardless of the outcome, she had to let Bethany’s mother know of her dissatisfaction.

The phone rang for a long time before someone finally answered.

“Hello?” The voice on the other end was impatient.

It was a high–pitched female voice that sounded somewhat familiar

At that moment, Larissa couldn’t seem to pinpoint where she had heard this voice before.

“Hello, is this Bethany’s mother?” she asked politely.

Before she could get a response, the person on the other end hung up abruptly.

When Larissa tried calling again, she couldn’t get through. It was likely that Bethany’s mother had

blocked her number.

Larissa had met many unreasonable people in her line of work. Due to the nature of her profession, she had trained herself to be calm and collected under most circumstances.

It was rare that someone could work her up so badly that she was tempted to smash her phone

into bits

bed and stayed up all night to complete most of her work for the

day.

her tasks and took half a day off from work.

early and managed to arrive at the kindergarten

go home.

children from toddler and junior classes had left, the students

up to go

guardians walked inside in an orderly manner to pick the children up.

appeared crowded due to the large number of people, it wasn’t

Larissa’s arm from behind.

Larissa stop in

heartbeat seemed to thump louder

so loud that the sound reverberated in her ears like a drumbeat, making her momentarily

other sounds.

turned around to look at the woman behind her.

flawless as Larissa had remembered previously, probably due to

almost called her “Mom,” but she caught herself in time and greeted

Ma’am.”

welled up in Violet’s eyes as she

she choked up, gripping Larissa’s arm tighter.

attention of other parents nearby,

curiously

inquisitiveapped Larissa back to

gazes

still have to pick