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.

Larissa tossed the papers back at him with a cold smile. “I’m

at all. In fact, there was a triumphant smirk on his face that he could not hide. He turned to the last page of the document and pushed it toward Larissa again. His index finger pointed at the place where the signatures were meant to be and said, “Take a closer look, then

penmanship was one that she

After a bit of calculating, it must have

been plotting against her since the beginning! And yet she had been kept in the

was so angry that she was trembling. She finally managed to speak through gritted teeth. “I do not remember

had conned her into signing anything, but she could not recall seeing anything

had this agreement notarized.” Travis refused to give her an explanation and simply emphasized the last few words. “You’ve given me the house,

way—” Travis went on his phone for a moment before showing a photo to Larissa. “I’ve completed the property transfer procedure. This

was only Travis’s name on

an instant, she

to reality. “Hurry up and sign the agreement. I still need to look after Amber

out all the fishy stuff in this deal, she would never let Travis have

irritably. “Even if you don’t sign it, the house is still mine. It’s impossible to give

it,” Larissa repeated. “I don’t mind wasting time with you. Let’s see who can drag things

gnashed

and left it on the table. She then picked up her bag and rose from her seat.

know what my parents are like.

not show it, or else Travis

they have decided to use their own

a low tone even as a hint of panic

Larissa casually tossed out those words and quickly left the cafe while

drag things out forever with Travis. Not for any other reason but that she simply did not

the signature on the property agreement

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