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?”

bit.” Larissa’s answer was frank. “We were once

wife? Don’t forget that good husband of yours was the one who’d gotten another woman pregnant while he cheated on you behind your back.”

we not talk about this?”

further, his tone becoming even more unpleasant.

a sore spot of hers. Moreover, he’d just passed away–she

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

through her phone, her

him

very uncomfortable.

was even worse than that of his

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

th

them found themselves at a stalemate until her alarm rang.

him–the solution within had reached

Chapter 99

she called the doctor. “The IV’s

time, the doctor arrived very quickly and removed the needle from

his wound for me.” He handed a

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

by his actions and struggled to break free instinctively.

lying earlier when he said that the fever had rendered his body weak. He could barely muster the strength to exert enough force, and his

grip loosened and the cotton ball fell onto the bed.

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