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.

were in charge of Larissa. But as the only VIP patient on this floor until today, Larissa’s and Gary’s presence was known to every nurse here. They were

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 you here? is there something you need? If there is, just press the button in

and waved her off. “No. there was nothing. The doctor has allowed me to leave the bed, so

to take you along for

“Sure.” Larissa said kindly,

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,

she said, “It’s that actress, Yvette

guess was confirmed to be true. She spent six years healing her trauma all the way on the other side of the globe, and she had

were all insane. There was nothing that they could not

clutching at the armrest of