Chapter 7

“What the hell do you mean?” Larissa was no longer able to keep calm, and she leaped to her feet, scaring the waiter who had brought her drink over.

“Your—your lemon tea, miss.” The waiter put the cup on the table nervously, his eyes darting between the two before leaving. Even then, he kept turning back to look at them.

Having been interrupted like that, Larissa recognized that she was in a public setting and somewhat restrained her discontent.

“I paid the down payment, and I’ve been paying the monthly mortgage too. If the house has nothing to do with me, then who else could it belong to?” She struggled to keep her voice low enough so that only the two of them could hear.

Hearing this, Travis unhurriedly retrieved yet another document from his ever-present briefcase.

“Take a look at this.”

On the top of the first page, bold letters announced the document to be an agreement for the gifting of property. Larissa’s gaze stopped at the title for two seconds before she began reading quickly—

Gifter: Larissa Seymour (hereinafter referred to as Party A”)

Giftee: Travis Hardy (hereinafter referred to as Party B)

The gift was precisely the house that they lived in after their marriage.

this?” Larissa tossed the papers back at him with a cold smile.

face that he could not hide. He turned to the last page of the document and pushed it toward Larissa again.

flamboyant signature that said her name. The penmanship was one that she was most familiar with, and it did not

ago! After a bit of calculating, it must have been shortly after Amber got pregnant.

her since the beginning! And yet she had been kept in the dark until now!

managed to speak through gritted

know how Travis had conned her into signing anything, but she could not recall seeing anything remotely like these papers about gifting property.

explanation and simply emphasized the last few words. “You’ve given me the house, so it’s mine. Based on the law, I don’t have the

way—” Travis went on his phone for a moment before showing a photo

Travis’s name on

an instant, she

sign the agreement. I

light but firm. Before she figured out

if you don’t sign it, the house is still mine. It’s impossible to give it back to you.”

wasting time with you. Let’s see who can

Travis gnashed his teeth.

ignored him and took out a 20-dollar bill and left it on the table. She then picked up

his voice, his expression savage. “You know what my parents

afraid. But she could not show it, or else Travis would have leverage over

her face. “If they have decided to use their own lives in exchange for

“Murder is against the law!” he hissed in a low tone even as a hint of

casually tossed out those words and quickly

obviously could not actually drag things out forever with Travis. Not for any other reason

the signature on the property agreement really bothered her.

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