Sweet Subterfuge

Chapter 718
On Friday, Larissa slept in for the first time since returning to Aldovia.
It’s not because she wanted to. After crying and drinking the whole night, she didn’t realize it when her alarm went off in the
morning.
It was only when her stomach growled with hunger that she woke up. Larissa grabbed her phone and looked at the time. It was
already
noon
She saw a few missed calls from Lewis on her phone screen.
He hadn’t received a reply from Larissa after a long time. So, he had sent a message saying, “I go over to your house at 2pm.”
Larissa quickly got out of bed, every last bit of her drowsiness gone.
Lewis arrived at Larissa’s house on time. At that moment, Larissa was trying to depull her swollen eyes.
Lewis stared at her face for a long time. He asked cautiously, while scrutinizing the expression on her face, “What happened to
you?”
Pressing the ice against her puffy eyes, Larissa chuckled and dismissed him with a wave of her hand. “It’s nothing. Last night
Wendy asked me to watch a tear–jerker movie with her last night. We cried all night long.”
“I see.” Lewis said, not doubting Larissa’s words.
“Then, can we leave now? Otherwise, we can go a little later,” he continued with concern.
“It’s alright!” Larissa ran back to her room. She took out a pair of sunglasses and put them on to hide her pully eyes. When she
emerged, she put on her shoes and said. “I’m ready, let’s go
Larissa and Lewis left together in a hurry. The place they went to was the most famous luxury goods mall in Westonia.
When Larissa was working in Westonia for a few years, she occasionally brought clients to that mall for shopping. Standing at
the entrance, she hesitated and fidgeted with her gray down coat.

“Can I enter dressed like this?”
Larissa thought that what Gary meant by choosing an evening gown was similar to when Kevan brought her to V. Style, which
was a more private and secluded location.
Even if she was dressed simply, only Lewis would see her.
Who would have expected
“You’re fine. Let’s enter together.” Lewis smiled and extended his arm.
The mall was quite deserted. There weren’t any personal shoppers rushing around with their luggage bags in tow.
Puzzled, Larissa was suddenly startled by a loud greeting in unison. “Welcome!”
The sound came from the entrance of a store nearest to them. With impeccable smiles on their laces, shop assistants dressed in
uniform were lined up in two rows on each side of the door, welcoming Larissa and Lewis politely.
Larissa had never been treated with such landare before, so she was quite stunned.
In contrast, Lewis led Larissa amongst the crowd of shop assistants nonchalantly. As they walked into the store, Larissa could
smell a pleasant scent in the air. The minute after they stepped into the store, one of the stall members shut the doors.
All of the shop assistants surrounded Larissa and eagerly introduced the newest designs of evening gowns for that season.
From the beginning to the end, Larissa felt as if she was on cloud nine. She imagined that she was walking on air; the
overwhelming
experience fell unreal to her.
Larissa was pushed into the dressing room and tried on gown after gown. In the end, she randomly pointed at one of the evening
gowns
so that she could finally escape.
‘Til have this.”