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

lost its appeal.

saw Everard, who usually fought her for the last bite of the sandwich, slumped in his

him a sandwich,

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

looked at him, perplexed, and finally

held it for a while

was about to let go and leave for class, was taken

on a bit longer, “…a little

bitter than

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

off you

over her shoulder and walked out, but after a

window made Midnight Scent

to live perpetually in the gloom.

for school. The image of his disappointed face played on her mind. He must have recognized the pills but played ignorant to spare her

pocket, she clenched the bottle of

take one every two… no, three days.

at the dining table, savoring the sandwich Cordelia had left behind.

cold, but still delicious.

out a bottle of pills identical

be the adult in the situation.

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

force wouldn’t work on her,

given her the pills?

It seemed the group had been too

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

but holding back.

Cordelia caught Merry sneaking glances at her

phone vibrated

from the platform moderator, “You’d better clear this up;

Merry’s face tensed.

the short video she’d recorded the previous day to go viral.