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.

her up. “Look at your face, it’s all bruised! And your leg is in

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

death was truly the best outcome for

table and complained bitterly. “What kind of lousy hospital is this? They don’t even have vases in their

this is a hospital not a

to recuperate, not

her the side eye. Edmund made a phone call “Hey, go

Larissa

eyes, at

really spoilt him rotten as

next to her

badly injured, why isn’t Revan

excuse casually,

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

clearly obtained

kidnapper clearly demanded Kevan to save you personally. Why did his assistant turn up in the

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

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

Edmund’s mouth shut