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.

three bags of IV fluids ordered by the doctor had been administered for almost two hours now. Consequently, Larissa had sat by Mrs. Hardy’s

hours as well.

Hardy started waking up gradually when the nurse came by to draw

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

nurse stumbled back two steps before accidentally knocking into the bedside table 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 had even splashed all over

patient from the neighboring bed quickly pressed the call

in, surveyed the situation, and frowned. “What

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 out of the ward after that.

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from bed 2 was none other

been on the back of her right palm was indeed dislodged. Bright red blood was

of her hand bulged, and the speed of the blood flowing out of her

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

away.

me!” she

in disgust and left after leaving a cotton ball

her wound later,”

she could make a move, Mrs. Hardy started