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.

you like me to mediate for you?” Before he had even finished, Janine had already begun to wipe

she sniffled. “I just want to

sighed and gently patted her back, his face filled with

then tell us in detail what misunderstanding there

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 boy suddenly decides to run off with someone else without even telling you. I didn’t even know what my daughter-in-law’s background was. Anyway, I was really sad and a little angry. So, I was not kind to my daughter-in-law, and I supposed I gave her the impression of a “wicked mother-in-law”, and she did not treat me well.

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 think a

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person, but my son insisted on marrying her. My husband

would get better after the marriage, but who knew that it would get worse?” When Janine