Sweet Subterfuge

Chapter 99

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?”

answer was frank. “We were once husband and wife after all.”

once husband and wife? Don’t forget that good husband of yours was the one who’d gotten

“Can we not talk about this?”

even more unpleasant. “You’re still devoted to him!

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

to turn away and leave when she spotted the needle on the back

through her phone, her head down. She did

him

felt very uncomfortable.

was even worse than that

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

th

themselves at

solution within had reached the neck of the

Chapter 99

the doctor. “The IV’s almost finished.”

the doctor arrived very quickly and removed the needle from his

onto his wound for me.” He handed a cotton ball

and Larissa hurriedly pressed the cotton ball onto the entrance wound

his actions and struggled to break

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

the bed. Blood trickled out from his

glared at Larissa. “Didn’t I tell you to

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