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.

was truly as unbearable as she had described. Yvette would never have married

that because of her failed manlage. Nonetheless, it did not diminish

father.

times that her father had died somewhere in

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

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

said. “If she had cared more about

to you?” Gary

him deeply, she

say it in person intensilied the pain he

reached into his pocket and took out some

worry, and she asked anxiously. “Do

Despite that, his brows lurcwed together, his complexion turning a sickly color and his body was trembling with.

too long, just a few minutes, and

say, sweat

continuing the conversation with him as his condition

said. “Let me get the doctor