Sweet Subterfuge by Trina Duo

Chapter 9

Dylan spat out the water he had just drunk.

He hurriedly leaned forward to grab tissues from the dispenser and wiped his mouth as well as the wet stains on his clothes.

“My apologies.” He was a tad embarrassed, and yet there was a hint of amusement in his eyes. Once he had straightened up again, he pretended to act serious by rubbing his chin in deep thought. Then he said in a straight-faced manner, “There actually is something wrong with Mr. Rogers. He really does have a problem.”

Larissa perked up at that.

“He’s a total germaphobe,” Dylan grumbled with disdain, clearly having been a victim of it.

This bit of gossip was nothing exciting for Larissa, but as she had not quite experienced it herself, she could not relate to him.

She just didn’t quite understand. “How does being a germaphobe have anything to do with rejecting Karin Gallagher?”

“Mr. Rogers’ germaphobia is so extreme that he can’t even have bodily contact with anyone else. When he goes out on business trips, he doesn’t even want to shake other people’s hands.”

Dylan’s words shocked Larissa once more.

When Kevan checked in that night, he clearly shook her hand, and last night, they had…

Larissa naturally would not think that she was the only exception for Kevan. After all, he did say that he originally wanted to have her get a call girl. Hence, she did not understand how Kevan’s ridiculous germaphobia would lead him to refuse Karin and have a call girl instead. Could it be that Karin was dirtier than a call girl to him?

Dylan saw her confusion but did not elaborate. Some things could not be interfered with by outsiders like him.

Larissa did not have the courage to ask either.

longer. As it just happened to be dinner time now, she asked out of courtesy,

ceremony either. “Sure. Can I bring someone

she did not want to meet Kevan due to last night’s events, he did help her out this morning. So, she needed to show her gratitude

nodded with a

…

it would not be considered negligent to invite someone of Kevan’s status to have a meal

occupy a table first. Kevan only arrived half an hour later. Unlike Dylan’s casual attire, he was still dressed in a suit, and his hair was clearly taken care of. His bangs had been completely

was in a meeting. It only ended now.” He gave only

long used to this, and replied without

four-person table for them. As Larissa was not familiar with Dylan, they naturally sat on opposite sides of the table. She thought that Kevan would

very big, so they were very close to each other. Larissa only needed to move her arm a little to touch Kevan’s. For that, she felt like she was sitting on a hot

you together?” He seemed to be asking this in passing, but his narrowed eyes had a cold glint to

just smiled and threw the question over to Larissa. “This involves the privacy of

to the key point before turning to look at

to others, but since Kevan had asked, she

let out an unprecedented smile.

he replied blandly with his gaze lowered. “With such unreasonable parents, I doubt your former husband

was right about

foolish back then. She had not known to look beyond the superficial. After she experienced the insanity of the Hardy elders, she actually carried a glimmer of hope that Travis would

led to her being proven wrong in the worst

Kevan’s perspective—ended up becoming her

here for a while. Why is no one serving us water? Is this the service offered by the Regal Dynasty? Is it worth the expensive

they kept apologizing before deferentially filling up his glass

Rogers. I will relay this to the restaurant’s manager. I’ll make sure that he pays more attention when training the waiters.”

however, refused to listen. Giving her a cold stare, he said, “Just focus on your department. You have no jurisdiction to be meddling in the affairs of the food and beverage department.”

her mouth at

Dylan quickly smoothed things over by saying, “Alright, alright. Let’s make our orders, shall we? I’m starving.”

menus in due course, waiting for the

suddenly asked Larissa, “I heard that you’ll be treating us