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 all.”

Don’t forget that good husband of yours was the one who’d gotten another woman pregnant while he cheated on you

disgusted her. “Can we not talk

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

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

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

her back on him and scrolled through her

him

very

he felt was even worse than

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

th

of them found themselves at a stalemate until her

the IV bag above him–the solution within had

Chapter 99

she called the doctor. “The IV’s almost

arrived very quickly and removed

his wound for me.” He

hand, and Larissa hurriedly pressed the cotton ball onto the entrance wound of

actions and

that 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

fell onto the bed. Blood trickled out from

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