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.

by the doctor had been administered for almost two hours now. Consequently, Larissa had sat by

hours as well.

Hardy started waking up gradually when the nurse came by

away the nurse violently, completely disregarding the needle still stuck on her arm. She threw herself onto Larissa

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

sent into disarray. The patient from the neighboring

nurse walked in, surveyed the situation, and frowned. “What happened?”

call in more people to clean up this mess, oh, and the patient from bed 2’s needle is dislodged. Could you please help her deal with it?” She rushed

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2 was none other than Mrs. Hardy.

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

tight. The veins on the back of her hand bulged, and the speed of the blood flowing out

was just about to help her tamp the bleeding when Mrs. Hardy ducked

away.

touch me!” she

pursed her lips in disgust and left after leaving a cotton

on her wound later,”

cotton ball in her palms. Before she could make a move, Mrs. Hardy started to climb out of