Love or Die CEO’s Daily Dose of Swoon

Chapter 128

Cordelia was utterly flustered.

Lorna would clean her room every day. To avoid getting caught with the medicine Louie had given her, Cordelia had hidden it in her backpack. But now, she had been busted

Everard pinched the bottle of pills, a smile playing on his lips that didn’t quite reach his eyes, casting a somber mood over the room they dubbed Midnight Scent.

Panic flickered in Cordelia’s beautiful eyes. She had a feeling that if Everard realized what the pills were for, he would be furious.

Thinking quickly, she blurted out, “Vitamins.”

After saying this, she reached out to snatch them back. She was quick, but Everard was quicker. As she leaned in, he pushed back in his chair, sliding away effortlessly.

By the time Cordelia stood up to grab them, he had already unscrewed the cap, taken out a pill, and brought it to his nose for a sniff. Then he looked up at her.

Maybe it was her imagination, but Cordelia could swear his gaze had turned colder, a complex storm brewing in his deep eyes, as unpredictable as the vast night sky.

He must have figured it out. The thought made Cordelia freeze.

Maybe it was time to tell the truth.

She was about to speak when Everardlowered his gaze, masking the turbulence in his eyes, and his features softened in an instant.

“Oh,” he sighed lightly, “vitamins, huh?”

His voice was faint, hollow, tinged with melancholy and disappointment.

He placed the pill back in the bottle, screwed the cap on, and handed it back to Cordelia.

She was puzzled

Looking down at the bottle in her hand and then back at Everard, he seemed almost wounded, like a had been abandoned by its owner, unwittingly tugging at her heartstrings.

Did her actions truly hurt him to this extent?

puppy that

and began to eat her breakfast sandwich, but as she took a bite, she heard

sandwich suddenly lost its

fought her for the last bite of the sandwich, slumped in his chair, the image of dejection.

help but offer him a

his lean figure hunched over it. After a moment,

at him, perplexed, and finally

Everard’s hand, she held it

and

on a bit longer,

chuckled, a sound more bitter than

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time felt right, she let go of his hand and stood up, “Well, I should

“Yeah, off you

over her shoulder and walked out, but

light pouring in through the window made Midnight Scent bright, but a shadow seemed

to live perpetually in the gloom.

face played on her mind. He must have recognized the pills but played ignorant to spare her feelings. And now he was so upset he couldn’t

pocket,

take one every two… no, three days.

dining table, savoring the sandwich

but still

drawer, he pulled out a bottle of pills identical

had to be the

had prepared the same medicine for her, but it seemed someone

and force wouldn’t work on her, only tenderness. Judging by her reaction upon leaving, it seemed to have

who had given her

eyes. It seemed the group had been

with Lorna in the afternoon, so upon

entered, she noticed Merry acting furtively, seemingly wanting to say something but holding back.

caught Merry sneaking glances at

phone vibrated

saw a message from the platform moderator, “You’d

Merry’s face tensed.

video she’d recorded the previous