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.

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

hours as well.

when the nurse

nurse violently, completely disregarding the needle still stuck on her arm.

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

The patient from the neighboring bed quickly pressed the

walked in, surveyed the situation, and frowned. “What

to clean up this mess, oh, and the patient from bed 2’s needle is dislodged. Could you please help her deal with

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patient from bed 2 was none

needle that had previously been on the back of her right palm was indeed dislodged. Bright red blood was trickling through the entrance

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

just about to help her tamp the

away.

you dare touch me!”

lips in disgust and left

on her wound later,” she

the cotton ball in her palms. Before she could make