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.

biological father was truly as unbearable as she had described. Yvette would never

of her failed manlage. Nonetheless, it did not diminish Larissa’s

father.

had died somewhere in the middle of the

would one day rescue her from the cruel Seymour family. That hope carried her through those long, frustrating days, preventing her

she always did her best to be good to Aster, to make up for the lack of fatherly love in his life. At the same time, however, she was

more about my feelings, perhaps I would be much

good to you?” Gary

Since Yvelle hated him deeply, she wouldn’t treat their daughter with any

in person intensilied the

Gary quickly reached into his pocket and took out some

replaced by worry, and she asked anxiously. “Do you need a doctor?”

lurcwed together, his complexion turning a sickly color and

long, just a few minutes,

still haven’t answered my question,” he struggled to say, sweat covering his forehead. “Is your

had no Intention of continuing the conversation with him

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