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?”

were once husband and wife after

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

“Can we not talk about this?”

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

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

spotted the needle on

through her phone,

him

felt very uncomfortable.

even worse than that of his fever.

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

th

of them found themselves at

at the IV bag above him–the solution within had reached the neck

Chapter 99

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

doctor arrived very quickly and removed the needle

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

hurriedly pressed the cotton ball onto the entrance wound of the needle. Kevan took the opportunity to hold her

shocked by his actions and

He could barely muster the strength to exert enough force, and his previous grip on her had been nothing but an instinctual reaction. Now, he hadn’t been able to properly hold her hand,

the bed. Blood

The doctor glared at Larissa. “Didn’t I tell you to press it onto his arm