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.

and materialistic, and if her biological father was truly as unbearable as she had described. Yvette

again, perhaps Yvette had become like that because of her failed manlage. Nonetheless, it did not diminish Larissa’s

father.

times that her father had died somewhere in the

family. That hope carried her through those long, frustrating days, preventing her from completely losing her mind and going

of fatherly love in his life. At the same time, however, she was well aware that

Larissa said. “If she had cared more about my feelings, perhaps I would be much happier now.”

she not good to you?” Gary asked, his voice

him deeply, she wouldn’t treat their daughter with any kindness.

Larissa say it in person intensilied the pain he

reached into his pocket and took out some

immediately replaced by worry, and she asked anxiously. “Do you need

away. Despite that, his brows lurcwed together, his complexion turning a

too long, just a few minutes, and his condition gradually returned to normal

answered my question,” he struggled to say, sweat covering his forehead. “Is your mother not good to you?

of continuing the conversation with

said. “Let me get the doctor to check on you again.”