Sweet Subterfuge

Chapter 670

“Milly?” After ending the call, Larissa raised her voice and called. The bedroom door was only hall closed.

Milly stuck her head inside and heard Larissa ask, “Is there anyone outside?

The person outside-

Milly turned carefully to see-

Kevan was looking at her too. He expressionlessly shook his head, and Milly got the message at once. “It’s just me.”

“Oh.” Larissa slumped into the head of the bed at once. Her grip tightened around her phone, and her thumb kept rubbing unconsciously

at the screen.

kept lighting up and blacking out because of that. The camera happened to be pointed at her face, and the phone unlocked automatically. Larissa’s thumb accidentally tapped on WhatsApp, and

the number of people who looked for her lessened a lot. Because of that, even though the last time she spoke to Kevan was more than half a month

stared at it for quite a while as thoughts raced through her head. Her

window with Kevan.

dare to say a word during the few minutes that they were together. The moment Milly was next to Larissa, though, she became a ” chatterbox” at once, chatting away with

tossed her phone aside and ignored all the complicated thoughts in her

“Yeah.”

so too.”

responses were short, Milly never

somehow ended up talking about

great, and his father passed away early on. His mother has a serious illness too,

the costs, and both his and mother’s expenses combined means that he doesn’t have a lot of money left. Now that he has lost his job, his mother’s medication money is gone. I heard that he ran to the director’s office to beg for mercy! A grown man like him

chat whether or not we should each spare some money for him so that his mother

is sad indeed.”