Chapter 7

“What the hell do you mean?” Larissa was no longer able to keep calm, and she leaped to her feet, scaring the waiter who had brought her drink over.

“Your—your lemon tea, miss.” The waiter put the cup on the table nervously, his eyes darting between the two before leaving. Even then, he kept turning back to look at them.

Having been interrupted like that, Larissa recognized that she was in a public setting and somewhat restrained her discontent.

“I paid the down payment, and I’ve been paying the monthly mortgage too. If the house has nothing to do with me, then who else could it belong to?” She struggled to keep her voice low enough so that only the two of them could hear.

Hearing this, Travis unhurriedly retrieved yet another document from his ever-present briefcase.

“Take a look at this.”

On the top of the first page, bold letters announced the document to be an agreement for the gifting of property. Larissa’s gaze stopped at the title for two seconds before she began reading quickly—

Gifter: Larissa Seymour (hereinafter referred to as Party A”)

Giftee: Travis Hardy (hereinafter referred to as Party B)

The gift was precisely the house that they lived in after their marriage.

tossed the papers back at him with

his face that he could not hide. He turned to the last page of the document and pushed it toward Larissa again. His index finger pointed at the

was one that she was most familiar with, and it did not seem

After a bit of calculating, it must have been

They had been plotting against her since the beginning! And yet she had been kept in the dark until now!

that she was trembling. She finally managed to speak through gritted teeth. “I do

how Travis had conned her into signing anything, but she could not recall seeing anything remotely like these papers about gifting property.

refused to give her an explanation and simply emphasized the last few words. “You’ve given me the house, so

and by the way—” Travis went on his phone for a moment before showing a photo to Larissa. “I’ve completed the property transfer procedure.

Travis’s

the image. In an instant,

“Hurry up and sign the agreement. I still need to look after Amber at the hospital. I don’t

out all the fishy

the house is still mine. It’s impossible to give it

sign it,” Larissa repeated. “I don’t mind wasting time with you. Let’s see who can drag things out

gnashed his teeth.

the table. She then picked up her bag

through carefully.” He lowered his voice, his expression savage. “You know what my parents are

she could not show

face. “If they

expression shifted a little. “Murder is against the law!” he hissed in a low tone even

casually tossed out those words and

for any other reason but that she simply did not want

the property agreement

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