Sweet Subterfuge by Trina Duo

Chapter 8

Larissa was confused by the accusation. But as she was someone who had quite some experience working here, she had met more unreasonable guests.

Therefore, she was able to react quickly and gave her an apologetic smile. “My apologies, Ms. Gallagher. There must be a misunderstanding here. I just got back, and I am not quite sure what’s going on. Could you give me some time to look into the situation?”

At the same time, her mind was racing. The Regal Dynasty was a proper hotel with an established background. It would not be possible for them to forcibly evict someone without cause. But seeing the guards and cleaning staff present, the eviction did not seem false either.

Larissa could think of no one else who had the power to evict guests other than the general manager.

She was just about to call him for clarification about the situation when the door to the room at the end of the corridor opened.

Dylan emerged in his pajamas. His was stone-faced and exuded a cold aura similar to Kevan’s. His geniality in the morning was nowhere to be seen.

Thinking that they had disturbed his rest, Larissa quickly apologized. “Forgive me, Mr. Shields. There is a situation that we need to take care of at the moment. If you find the noise bothersome, I can have someone put you up in a different room.”

However, Dylan waved her off and smiled. “Don’t worry about it.”

Larissa was totally confused once again. If it was fine, then why was he upset earlier?

Dylan walked straight up to Karin, who clearly knew him.

“M—Mr. Shields?” Her previous arrogance was gone and replaced by anxiety.

“Ms. Gallagher.” Dylan was not as nice to her as he was to Larissa. His tone was polite and indifferent. “Mr. Rogers was the one who requested your eviction. As for why…” His smile did not reach his eyes. “I’m sure you know.”

Karsyn froze and steadily turned pale.

to add, “If you don’t want this to get any worse, I

seconds before she turned and went back into her room.

down as much as possible. A large pair of sunglasses as well as a mask hid her face from view. She did not say a word to anyone else and hurriedly made her

and the cleaning staff began cleaning

Larissa and Dylan were left in

on leave?” Dylan asked

no energy left to wonder why he knew about her being on leave. She went straight into the

before letting

“Sure,” he said.

…

Dylan into his room. He beckoned her to sit on the couch and asked, “Water?”

her head and

on the armchair on the side. “You’d like

himself as a lawyer who “specialized in handling divorce cases,” so being able to

was as if she was exposing her wounds to someone else. She straightened up discreetly and clenched her fists, which

did not ask for the reason why. However, he simply

in need of your services precisely because

“How would your

the contents of the divorce agreement, and

house?

Larissa thought about the house, her rage began to ramp up. She did her best to control it, and her nails dug unconsciously into

Dylan looked interested in what she had to

ago, my former husband showed me the papers for a gifting of property agreement that I had apparently signed and said that I had gifted

“Did you sign the papers in person?”

“Based on the penmanship, it does seem to be

the off chance that it is… Unless you can prove

hope plummeted into a dark abyss. She did not even know when she signed the damn papers. How was she supposed to prove that she was deceived?

showed her a comforting smile. “Regardless of whether or not the papers are genuine, the transfer process he went through is definitely illegal. We can hold onto this point and do some digging. For all we know, we could implicate a bunch of people. By that time, there will be many who will want to get back at your former husband, so we won’t even need to do

good idea, and the only feasible one at