Sweet Subterfuge

Chapter 519

Larissa was taken aback, “Huh?”

Gary avoided her gaze and asked In a low voice, “What about your father?”

Although Larissa was trembling, she put on a smile and said. “My mom said he passed away when I was very young. I’ve never seen my dad, and I don’t even know what he looks like. That’s the biggest regret of my life. Because of this. I can’t bear to let my son’s hopes be shattered.”

Gary’s heart, which had just calmed down, began to ache again. He wanted to tell Larissa that he was her father.

But he was worried that she would blame him for not appearing all these years, and might even refuse to acknowledge him. He wouldn’t be able to maintain even a simple friendship with her.

“Do you miss your father?” he tentatively asked.

“When I was little, I thought about him, especially when I was sad,” Larissa recalled the past, as if all the pain had disappeared, leaving behind a faint trace of melancholy, “But as I grew up. I stopped thinking about it because I knew it was pointless.”

of you, could you

Larissa didn’t take Gary’s question seriously at all and joked with him instead. “I definitely wouldn’t be able to accept it. I

didn’t pass away? Gary looked at Larissa, his gaze

at Gary. “Do you know something?” Her voice was trembling.

Gary answered,

he didn’t dare to tell her the

There had to be something more to it. Just at that moment. Lewis

heaved a sigh

have been completed,” Lewis announced as he picked up the suitcase next to Gary’s bed. “We can leave now.” “Okay.” Gary quickly stood up and

way back to the hotel Larissa didn’t ask him any more questions because Lewis was

15 present.

to take care of them before she hurried to the

the road leading to the kindergarten were

couple of times before finding a space to park in the

arrived at the kindergarten, it was already past 9 am, and the opening ceremony of the sports meet had already begun. The loud music made her instinctively