Sweet Subterfuge

Chapter 518

Larissa had never met her biological father before. By the time she was old enough to remember, Yvette was already with Xavier.

She could only piece together a vague image of her lather’s appearance from Yvelle’s poor descriptions.

“He’s an incompetent piece of trash.” Perhaps he was skinny and meek.

“He was always tongue–tied and clumsy.” Maybe he was a silent and introverted man who always doubled himself,

“He’s a freeloader who couldn’t eam a penny by himself. He depends on women to pay his bills.” He probably dressed in the simplest clothes, maybe even a bit sloopy.

In short, he was net particularly impressive or good–looking.

However, Larissa always had an inkling that Yvette was not telling the truth. Just because they didn’t share a close relationship didn’t mean she didn’t understand her.

truly as unbearable as she had described. Yvette would never have married him in the first place.

become like that because of her failed manlage. Nonetheless, it did not diminish Larissa’s longing for her

father.

countless times that her father had died somewhere in the middle of the sea, she

her father would one day rescue her from the cruel Seymour family. That hope carried her through those long, frustrating days, preventing her from completely losing her mind and going astray.

to Aster, to make up for the lack of fatherly love in his life. At the same time, however, she was well aware that for a child, a father was irreplaceable. That was why she couldn’t ignore

“If she had cared more about my feelings,

Is she not good to

it. Since Yvelle hated him deeply,

say it in person

reached into his pocket and

she asked anxiously. “Do you

waved her away. Despite that, his brows lurcwed together, his complexion

long, just a few minutes, and his condition

question,” he struggled to say, sweat covering his

with him as his condition

about that later,” she said. “Let me get the doctor to check on