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

a triumphant smirk on his face that he could not hide. He turned to the last page of the document and pushed it toward

name. The penmanship was one that she was most familiar

shown to be dated three months ago! After a bit of calculating, it must have

the beginning! And yet she had been kept in the dark

she was trembling. She finally managed to speak through

conned her into signing anything, but she could not recall

and simply emphasized the last few words. “You’ve given me the house, so it’s mine. Based on the law,

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

was only Travis’s

the image. In an instant, she was unable to

I still need to look after Amber at the hospital.

I won’t sign it,” Larissa said. Her voice was light but firm. Before she figured out all the fishy stuff in

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

mind wasting time with you. Let’s

gnashed his teeth.

then picked up her bag and rose from her seat. Before

through carefully.” He lowered his voice, his expression savage. “You know what my parents are like. Aren’t you afraid they’ll cause a scene at your hotel again?”

show it, or else Travis would have leverage over

your parents—” A mocking smile appeared on her face. “If they have decided to use their own lives

in a low tone even as a hint of panic flickered through his eyes.

them to try.” Larissa casually tossed out those words and quickly left the

reason but that she simply did not want to

property

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