"No way! Absolutely not!" Larissa denied the possibility at once.

The Seymours hated her so much, so how could they suddenly want to meet her son? Even if she considered things from a different perspective, they should not have let someone like Ron go pick Aster up if they wanted to meet him so badly.

Her reaction was just as Gary had predicted.

The truth was, his suggestion from before had only been just an attempt to sound Larissa out. He already knew that she did not have it good with the Seymours from her previous narrative. She did not like the Seymours, and they did not like her either. But he had not been sure if their dislike would be bad enough that they would take it out on an innocent child.

"Then … what could the reason be?" Gary asked.

Larissa's mind was a mess. She could not answer that question at all. "I don't know," she said.

Kidnapping Aster was either to make her upset or to gain some benefit from her. If it was the former, it was too sudden; but if it was the