Sweet Subterfuge

Larissa did not know how many times she had come to and left Bartham Airport. The weirdest thing about it was that whenever
she was
here, her mood would become strangely grave-it was as if she had gone back to that fateful day when she left Caldor six years
ago.
“Time to go.” When it was almost time to board the flight, Lewis helped Gary up before reaching out to grip the handles of the
wheelchair.
“Okay.” Feeling the wheelchair move, Larissa put away all her nonsensical thoughts and gripped the phone that Kevan forced
into her hand last night tightly.
Gary was walking next to her, and he saw that phone. Snorting coldly, he sneered. “We’re about to leave, and he doesn’t even
want to come see us off
He had not named the subject in his words, but Larissa knew who he was complaining about. She flipped the phone over, and
the screen It up because of her actions-there was still no word from him. Larissa pressed her lips tightly together, and the empty
hole in her heart felt cold
Gary had booked the whole business class on this flight to ensure Larissa’s safety. The three of them sat separately so that they
would have a certain amount of personal space where they would not disturb each other.
Lewis turned on his laptop the moment he sat down, lingers clacking away on the keyboard, looking strangely busy while Gary
adjusted
his seat and asked for a blanket from the flight attendant, going straight to sleep.
They followed Larissa’s request and did not smother her with too much attention.
Larissa had slept for too long last night so she did not feel tired. But the entertainment on the plane was very dull. She picked a
movie before putting on headphones. The movie had just played when the announcement about the plane taking off sounded,
instructing all passengers to turn off their phones.
Larissa’s finger touched the power button, and she was about to press down on it when her phone vibrated, a message popping
up on the screen. This phone was brand new, and only Kevan knew the number of it.

Larissa’s heart began to race a little faster. Her hand trembled even as she opened the message.
“I will wait for you to come back.”
These eight words caused a wave of emotion to surge up within her. She stared at the message, complicated feelings engulfing
her all at once, choking her by the throat even as she teared up. She typed an “Okay” in the text box, but she was unable to send
the message even after a long while. After all even she did not know if she would come back in the future.
“Miss, please turn off your mobile phone.” The beautiful flight attendant crouched next to her with a gentle smile, but the tone of
her voice clearly left no room for dispute.
“Oh! Right.” Larissa came back to herself and did as she was told.
Lewis had already made appropriate arrangements for what came next. After landing in Westonia, Larissa was sent to a very
high-end private hospital, receiving complete treatment and care from the doctors and nurses. She was practically cut off from
the world beyond, and the phone that Kevan gave her was confiscated by Gary and tossed to G od knew where. Because of
that, she missed a series of big. shocking news that occurred in Bartham. It was less than three months since the exposure of
Yvette’s dark history, and she had appeared in the headlines of all the major news outlets once more-Yvelle Hospitalized!
Severely Wounded, Suspected Physical Abuse!”
The papara zzi had uploaded the video of her getting hauled into the car by lan in the parking lot. The video showed that her
eyes were closed, and her body was hanging lifelessly from lan’s shoulders like a corpse. lan’s lace had been blurred out so no
one could tell who it was, but this did not stop netizens from trying to identify him via all kinds of traces or clues that they could
lind.
This got pretty big, and it was difficult for lan, who was involved, to not know about it. He frantically went to lind Xavier and said,
“What do we do now, Mr. Seymour?” He could never have known that there would be papa raz zi lying in wait in the basement
parking lot.