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?”

“We were once husband and wife after all.”

you mean 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

her. “Can we not talk about

becoming even more unpleasant. “You’re still devoted to

hers. Moreover, he’d just passed away–she didn’t like to speak ill

turn away and leave when she spotted the needle on the back of his palm and resisted

she turned her back on him and scrolled through her phone, her head down. She did

to him

felt very

even worse than that of

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

th

them found themselves at a

solution within had

Chapter 99

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

the doctor arrived very quickly and removed the needle from

his wound for me.” He handed a

surfaced on the back of his hand, and Larissa hurriedly pressed the cotton ball onto the entrance wound of the

actions and struggled to break free instinctively.

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

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

I tell you to press it onto his arm properly? Do you want