Sweet Subterfuge by Trina Duo

Chapter 402

Startled, Larissa almost dropped the shopping bag she was holding.

“Why are you following us?” she demanded, her eyes wide. Larissa raised her voice intentionally to mask the guilt she felt with anger.

“Huh?” In response to her question, Dylan expressed an appropriate amount of astonishment.

Aggrieved, he explained himself, I’m not following you. I have a friend who lives in this apartment complex, and I’m going to his place for dinner.”

Larissa exposed his lie with a straight face “Aren’t you cooking steak for dinner tonight?”

Dylan shrugged and pulled out his hands from his pockets.

Showing her his empty palms, he continued, “Can’t you see that I haven’t bought anything?

There’s nothing to eat at home, so I have to have dinner at my friend’s place.”

Larissa certainly didn’t believe him.

tow

in tow and tried to leave. “I just remembered that I forgot to

go buy the ingredients I need for

and stood her ground. “That’s enough. I’m not going to

no need to continue pretending. Tell me

have to escort you home safely,”

Larissa knew she couldn’t shake him off, so she decided to let

main entrance, she said to Dylan, “Thank you. You can

Dylan nodded, but he didn’t go home just yet. “You

at Aster, he

innocently, “Goodbye, Uncle Dylan!”

the door, Dylan took out his phone and made a call. Larissa is finally back, and she brought a child

most of the items on her shopping list, except for milk

meal for Aster as planned. She poured milk into the oatmeal and heated the bowl in a microwave for

oatmeal for dinner,” she apologized to Aster, “I will bring

smiling sweetly at Larissa as he did so. “This

at his adorable response. She leaned forward and planted a kiss on his chubby cheeks