Sweet Subterfuge

Chapter 99

After hanging up, Larissa realized that Kevan was staring at her.

The two of them had been very close. Her conversation with the nurse earlier had been overheard by him

entirely.

“Do you want to go?” he asked her.

“No.” Her reply was swift with no trace of hesitation in her voice.

Kevan sighed in relief.

Still, he couldn’t help but ask, “Because there’s no cable car?”

“I wouldn’t go even if there was.” Larissa wiped away the few drops of tears leaking through the corner of her eyes as she spoke, her expression blank.

She most probably wouldn’t be attending his funeral either–if only to avoid encountering his family members.

Seeing her tears, Kevan’s heart sank.

“Are you sad that he’s no longer alive?”

frank. “We were once husband and

and wife? Don’t forget that good husband of yours was the one who’d gotten another woman pregnant while

her. “Can we

his tone becoming even more unpleasant. “You’re still devoted to him! You always

been a sore spot of hers. Moreover, he’d just passed away–she didn’t like to speak ill of

the

on him and scrolled through her phone, her head down. She did not say another

him

very

discomfort he felt was even worse than that

was hurting and angry at him, but he couldn’t bring himself to set

th

two of them found themselves at

solution within had reached

Chapter 99

doctor.

doctor arrived very quickly and removed the needle from

wound for me.” He handed a cotton ball

already surfaced on the back of his hand, and Larissa hurriedly pressed the cotton ball onto the entrance wound of the needle. Kevan took the opportunity to hold her hand.

actions and struggled to break free instinctively.

the fever had rendered his body weak. He could barely muster the strength to exert enough force, and his previous grip on her had been nothing but an instinctual

ball fell onto the bed. Blood trickled out from his wound

that?” The doctor glared at Larissa. “Didn’t I tell you to press it onto his arm properly? Do you want him to