Sweet Subterfuge

Chapter 40

Chapter 40

The scream was from the patient in the next bed.

She shrunk into a corner, her voice trembling as she spoke. “Ma–Ma’am, don’t do it!”

Mrs. Hardy knelt on the ground, right in the middle of the spilled hot water.

In her hands was a silver shard from the shattered inner lining of the thermos, its sharpest end pointed toward her own neck.

“If you don’t come with me to see Travis, I will die right here! Right in front of you! I’ll let you feel that guilt for your entire life!” Her bloodshot eyes glared at Larissa, a resolute expression on her face.

Larissa had to admit, at that moment, she was truly afraid.

She had been so afraid that for a brief instant, she forgot how much Mrs. Hardy feared death, how truly manipulative and shameless she was. In her panic, she agreed to the woman’s request.

transferred from the intensive care

but the room

patients.

Hardy was sleeping on the empty bed,

noise, he moved his

Then, he froze.

her expectations. He was bald, his head wrapped in bandages, and his thin face crisscrossed with similar bandages. His complexion was pallid, and his eyes

obvious that he wasn’t doing

slender figure reflected within those clear irises. His lips trembled and his throat was constricted but he forced out two syllables after staring at her for a

throat had been scorched by fire and polished with

stood at the entrance and gazed at him distantly. The passion in his eyes strengthened her impulse

so gross,” she thought to

for Mrs.

stood there, unmoving, for a long time, Mrs.

soon as she entered, Mrs. Hardy followed closely and locked

thirsty?” she asked

he replied, his eyes still

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