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.
intensive
but the room
patients.
Mr. Hardy was sleeping on the
a noise, he moved his neck
Then, he froze.
bandages, and
he wasn’t doing
lips trembled and his throat was constricted but he forced out two syllables after
hoarse, as if his throat had been scorched by fire and
the entrance and gazed at him distantly. The passion in his eyes strengthened her impulse to turn away and
she thought to
the room if it hadn’t been for Mrs. Hardy who was right behind her,
there, unmoving, for a long time, Mrs. Hardy
Hardy followed closely
thirsty?” she
his eyes still pinned on Larissa.
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