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

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

sandwich suddenly lost its appeal.

for the last bite of the sandwich, slumped in his

offer him a sandwich, “why aren’t you

lean figure hunched over it.

and finally just acknowledged with

it for a while until he finally

was about to let go and leave for

then held on a bit longer, “…a little bit

chuckled, a sound more bitter than flirtatious. Cordelia’s heart tightened further.

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

nodded. “Yeah, off you

over her shoulder and walked out, but after

pouring in through the window made Midnight Scent

appeared to live perpetually

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

guilty. Reaching into her pocket, she

no, three days. Just enough to

table, savoring the sandwich Cordelia had

but

out a bottle of

he knew he had to be the adult in the

same medicine for her, but it seemed someone else had beaten him to

he played the weak one. Cordelia was straightforward, and force wouldn’t work on her, only tenderness. Judging

given her the pills?

seemed

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

say something but holding back. Cordelia sat

Cordelia caught Merry sneaking glances

phone

“You’d better clear this up; it’s not looking good.”

Merry’s face tensed.

the short video she’d recorded