Sweet Subterfuge by Trina Duo

Chapter 72

Any sense of drowsiness vanished entirely, and Larissa was very much awake.

She no longer had the mood to read the rest of the messages and retrieved her tablet from the bedside table drawer. She then found last night’s episode of ” The Mediators Room”.

Travis’ parents arrived at the set as the “mediation representatives”. They had mournful looks on their faces, and they looked fragile too. Janine’s eyes were also red from crying, and she could only squint through the swelling.

for you?” Before he

just want…” she sniffled. “I just want to apologize…to apologize to

and gently patted her back, his

retrieved some tissues and passed them over. “Try to calm down, and then tell

the tear tracks on her face and sat blankly for a few minutes. before she continued, “Actually, this is all my fault. My son is the head of the technical department of a brokerage firm. By a stroke of luck, he met my daughter-in-law during work. She is a manager of a big hotel in Covenford and is very beautiful. My son fell for her at first sight, but my husband and I didn’t even know that they were dating. Then when my boy brought her home, he said that they were going to get married. I couldn’t accept this at that time. Mothers would know. You know how that feels like when your

husband and I were against this marriage. The first reason was the one I mentioned, that our boy didn’t tell us about it. The other one was that I did not like my daughter-in-law’s job. Maybe it’s because we’re from a more conservative generation, but I

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insisted on marrying

the marriage, but who knew that it would get worse?” When Janine got to this point, she choked up and wiped her