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?”

were once husband

Don’t forget that good husband of yours

sarcasm disgusted her. “Can we not talk about

unpleasant. “You’re still

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

just about to turn away and leave when she spotted the needle on the back of his palm and

scrolled through her

him

very uncomfortable.

even worse than that of

him, but he couldn’t

th

themselves at a

him–the solution within had reached

Chapter 99

called the doctor.

and removed

for me.” He handed a cotton ball to Larissa.

had already surfaced on the back of his hand, and Larissa hurriedly pressed the cotton ball onto the entrance wound of the needle. Kevan

shocked by his actions and struggled to break

muster the strength to exert enough force, and his previous grip on her had been nothing but an instinctual

grip loosened and the cotton ball fell onto the bed. Blood trickled out from his

“Didn’t I tell you to press it onto his arm properly? Do you

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