Sweet Subterfuge

Chapter 39

After the doctor examined Mrs. Hardy, he found that other than her fever, there was nothing else wrong with her. So, he arranged for her to receive an intravenous drip on a bed in the ward. He also prescribed a few boxes of cold and cough medication

for her.

When Larissa returned from the pharmacy, Mrs. Hardy was still unconscious.

The nurse told her to remove the wet clothes from the woman’s body to prevent her condition from exacerbating. Larissa felt a wave of repulsion from the bottom of her

heart.

She tried to call Travis, but his phone was still turned off. Then, she tried to contact Andrew, but he was unreachable despite her multiple attempts. She even suspected that Andrew had already blocked her number.

As for Mr. Hardy–she never even saved his number in the first place.

Helplessly, Larissa slipped a hundred dollar note to the nurse tending to the next bed and had her change Mrs. Hardy’s clothes for her.

of IV fluids ordered by the doctor had been administered for almost two hours now. Consequently, Larissa had

hours as well.

up gradually when the nurse came by to draw

Larissa, she pushed away the nurse violently, completely disregarding the needle still

shook violently before the thermos on the table fell and was smashed to bits. Not only that, the hot water from

from the neighboring bed quickly pressed the call button.

surveyed the situation,

scalded earlier informed the new nurse, “Please call in more people to clean up this mess, oh, and the patient from bed 2’s needle is

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from bed 2 was none other than Mrs.

dropped her gaze as soon as she heard the nurse’s words. The needle that had previously been on the back of her right palm was indeed dislodged. Bright red blood was trickling through the entrance wound,

Larissa, her grip tight. The veins on the back of her hand bulged, and the speed of the blood flowing out of her wound increased as

her tamp the bleeding

away.

touch me!” she growled

in disgust and left after leaving a

this on her wound later,” she instructed Larissa.

Before she could make a move, Mrs. Hardy