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

tucked Aster into bed and stayed up all night to complete most of her work for the next

day.

next morning, she raced through her tasks and

hotel early and managed to arrive at the kindergarten

go home.

children from toddler and junior classes had

to go

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

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

Larissa’s arm from behind. “Lari?”

made Larissa stop in

as her racing heartbeat seemed

reverberated in her ears like a drumbeat,

to other sounds.

mind went blank as she turned around to look at the woman behind her.

the past five years. Her face was as flawless as Larissa had remembered previously, probably due to her

but she caught herself in time

Ma’am.”

of sorrow welled up in Violet’s eyes as she tried to regain

she choked up, gripping Larissa’s arm

attention of other parents nearby, who turned to

curiously

Larissa back to

gazes

still