Sweet Subterfuge

Jay’s suicide made headlines in the media, and news of him kidnapping Larissa gradually seread.

Larissa was once again famous for the wrong reasons, which troubled her to no end.

What irked her even more were the constant messages of condolences.

She kept receiving phone calls of concern from friends and former colleagues around her

Even Violet came to the hospital to visit her,

The whole time, she early admonished Larissa with advice on recuperating and left a thermos of hot soup for her.

Just as she left. Edmund arrived.

He strode into her ward with a large bouquet of champagne roses.

“Lar” Edmund called out affectionately, his eyes filled with concem. “Are you seriously injured?”

Larissa fell a headache coming on.

“Tm line,’ she replied indifferently, trying to create some distance between them.

“Look at your

his rant angrily, “Luckily, Jay is dead. Otherwise, I would have killed him for what

instant death was truly

put the roses on the bedside table and complained bitterly. “What kind of lousy hospital is this? They don’t even have

a hospital not a hotel

to recuperate, not

made a phone call “Hey, go

Larissa triumphantly. “See

her eyes, at

spoilt him rotten as he was allowed to do whatever he

next to

“Since you’re so badly injured, why

made up an excuse casually, “He’s busy

I heard that when you were kidnapped yesterday, he didn’t even show up at

obtained

demanded Kevan to save you personally.

the same excuse. Larissa repeated, “1 said, he’s budy

Edmund sald stemly, “Luckily, nothing unfortunate happened to you. But what if the kidnapper had thrown you off the rooftop because he failed to tum

could see Edmund’s mouth shut