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

slipped the bottle into her backpack and began to eat her breakfast sandwich, but

sandwich suddenly lost its appeal.

fought her for the last bite of the sandwich, slumped in his

help but offer him a sandwich,

lean figure hunched over it. After a moment, he said, “Not hungry.”

and finally just acknowledged with

her breakfast. Taking Everard’s hand, she held it

and leave for class,

held on a bit longer, “…a

more bitter than flirtatious. Cordelia’s heart

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his hand and stood up, “Well, I should

off you

over her shoulder and walked out,

in through the window made Midnight Scent bright, but

appeared to live perpetually in the gloom.

played on her mind. He must have recognized the pills but played ignorant to spare her feelings. And now he

her pocket, she clenched

she would take one every two… no, three days. Just enough

dining table, savoring the sandwich Cordelia had left behind.

cold, but

he pulled out a bottle of pills

had to be the

her, but it seemed someone else

straightforward, and force wouldn’t work on her, only tenderness. Judging by her reaction upon

who had given her

of sharpness crossed Everard’s eyes. It seemed the group had been too

with Lorna in the afternoon, so upon arriving at school, she first talked

seemingly wanting to say something but holding back. Cordelia sat

Cordelia caught Merry sneaking

phone vibrated

from the platform moderator, “You’d better clear

Merry’s face tensed.

she’d recorded the previous day to go