Larissa's Game of Thrones (Larissa) novel Chapter 217

“Understood. I’ll ask him and get back to you tomorrow.”

“Good.”

After hanging up, Finley sat in his car for a long time, processing everything before finally driving out of the parking garage.

…

Before bed, Larissa received the now-customary text from Torrin.

This time, it was a link to an article.

“Ladies, Beware! Ten Depraved Behaviors of Men Who Can’t Have Children.”

Torrin followed up with a text: [Larissa, do you see? Haskell is probably a complete deviant by now. Marrying him is jumping into a pit of fire!]

Larissa had to hand it to him. Haskell’s reputation was taking another hit.

She typed back: [Torrin Dillon, what on earth have you been doing with your time since you went back to your family?!]

Torrin: [Researching how to get you to forgive me and take me back. And how to treat you better in the future.]

Larissa almost laughed. Just yesterday he was talking about having other women bear his children, and now he was saying this with a straight face.

She found an article online titled “Ten Clingy Behaviors That Make Ex-Boyfriends Lose All Dignity”, sent him the link, and then ignored whatever reply he might send.

…

The next afternoon, after lunch, Larissa went next door to Haskell’s room for his treatment.

Larissa didn’t look up from her work. “Why do you ask? He still texts me every night, I’ll give him points for persistence. But he mostly talks about you.”

She fought back a smile.

Haskell raised an eyebrow at her expression. “What does he say about me?”

“Last night he sent me an article titled, ‘Ladies, Beware! Ten Depraved Behaviors of Men Who Can’t Have Children.’ He was trying to imply you’ve become some kind of deviant and that marrying you would be a huge mistake.”

Haskell blinked, then sighed. “It seems the rumors about my infertility are quite widespread.”

“Well, it is a juicy high-society secret,” Larissa said, nodding. “The gossipmongers love this kind of stuff.”

Haskell looked at her, a thoughtful, meaningful glint in his eye. “Larissa, do you think that after we’re married, we should work on dispelling that rumor as quickly as possible?”