Sweet Subterfuge by Trina Duo

Chapter 210

Everyone left the room and closed the door behind them, leaving only Larissa and Reuben in the room.

“I’m sorry.” Reuben said again.

Without a trace of emotion on her face, Larissa pulled her shirt back on, adjusting it before getting off the bed on her own.

“I had no choice, I’m sorry,” Reuben continued to mutter to himself, “If I didn’t do this… I would suffer in my family.”

Larissa stopped in her tracks, but she didn’t tum around.

Staring blankly at the door, she sneered and said. “You don’t need to apologize. People who don’t act for themselves will only lose out in the end. I understand you.”

She didn’t blame Reuben. She only blamed hersell for naively trusting others easily. Reuben had taught her a profound lesson today, and she decided to be grateful to him,

way she could wear

there. Yvette was wearing an angry and ashamed expression, while Xavier and Jay seemed rather calm. Meanwhile,

apologize to Reuben and Mr. Cole,”

tall Larissa’s gaze swept across the room, scanning each person

mistaken?” she asked with a sneer. “Shouldn’t

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rush forward but

energy. I don’t think someone in the late stage of cancer would be

the armrests of the chair tightly, the veins of her arms

took care of

to university in Covenford when I was seventeen, and I’ve been

you for seventeen years! Is this how you repay

script of the drama you’ve written? Should I pretend that I don’t know the ser vants have been drugging my supper and breakfast? Should I act like I have no idea that you wanted Reuben to force himself upon me? Should I admit that I seduced Reuben so that your plans for my marriage to him can proceed