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

backpack and began to eat her breakfast sandwich, but as

suddenly lost

bite of the sandwich, slumped in his chair, the image of

him a

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

him, perplexed, and finally just acknowledged

she held it for a while

and leave for class, was

bit

a sound more bitter than flirtatious. Cordelia’s heart

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his hand and stood up, “Well,

“Yeah, off you go.”

walked out, but after a few

window made Midnight Scent bright, but a shadow

perpetually in the gloom.

must have recognized the pills but played ignorant to spare her feelings. And now he was so upset

guilty. Reaching into her pocket, she clenched

would take one every two… no, three

at the dining table, savoring the sandwich Cordelia had left

but

he pulled out a

had to be the adult in the

her, but it

played the weak one. Cordelia was straightforward, and force wouldn’t work on her, only tenderness. Judging by her reaction upon leaving, it seemed to have

who had given her the pills?

It seemed the group

an art exhibit to attend with Lorna in the afternoon, so upon arriving at school,

furtively, seemingly wanting to say something but holding back. Cordelia sat down, waiting for her to

Literature class, Cordelia caught Merry sneaking glances

phone vibrated

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

Merry’s face tensed.

recorded the previous day to go viral.