Sweet Subterfuge

“The E.R. said that they called the police when they brought her here, but they didn’t say how she got hurt

“She must have been beaten up by someone. Otherwise, how do you explain her injuries?!”

“Don’t celebrities have agents, bodyguards, and stuff? Normal people wouldn’t be able to get close to them, so how the hell did someone even beat her up?”

“That’s for celebs who are popular now! For a washed-up one like Yvette, what agent would care about her, especially with the huge scandal that got exposed so recently?”

Larissa was originally listening to the gossip as a way to relieve her boredom, but when the name “Yvette” popped out of a nurse’s mouth, she froze at once. Once she had connected the previous dialogues to this, she was very surprised.

Yvette was beaten up by someone? But who would do that?

Like Larissa, Gary’s attention was also drawn by the nurses’ conversation. He slowed down until he decided to just stop walking.

as the only VIP patient on this floor until today, Larissa’s and Gary’s presence was known to every

head nurse in charge of Larissa, Anya Bennett, hurriedly put down her work and left the station with some nervousness, while also asking in a pleasant manner. “What brings

there was nothing. The doctor has allowed me to leave the bed, so I

allowed herself to relax. “Do you need me to take

“Sure.” Larissa said kindly,

he looked down at her for a moment but said nothing. Anya took the lead, introducing the structure of the floor as well as the purpose of every room they passed by. Larissa listened attentively. After going one round around the floor, she pretended to ask nonchalantly, “There seems to be someone

once, suddenly lowering her voice as she said, “It’s that actress,

all the way on the other side of the globe, and she had barely managed to walk out of her traumatic childhood grief when the recent car accident made her fearful of Yvette and anyone from the Seymour family all over

were all insane. There was nothing that

lip, her uninjured right hand clutching at the armrest of the wheelchair. Her knuckles lost their color due to