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

breakfast sandwich, but as she took a

sandwich suddenly lost its appeal.

last bite

a sandwich, “why

took the sandwich, his lean figure hunched over it. After a moment, he

looked at him, perplexed, and finally just acknowledged with an

Everard’s hand, she held it for

let go and leave for class, was

bit longer, “…a little bit longer.”

bitter than flirtatious. Cordelia’s heart tightened

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hand and stood up, “Well, I should get to class.

off you

shoulder and walked out, but after a few steps, she turned

window made Midnight Scent bright, but a shadow

to live perpetually in the gloom.

for a moment before leaving for school. The image of his disappointed face played on her mind. He must have recognized the pills but played ignorant to spare her feelings. And now he

guilty. Reaching into her pocket, she clenched the

now on, she would take one every two… no, three days. Just enough to suppress a little.

the “distraught” Everard sat at the dining table, savoring the sandwich

bit cold, but still

out a

knew he had to be the adult in

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

wouldn’t work on her, only tenderness. Judging by her reaction upon leaving, it

her the pills?

seemed the group had been

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

wanting to say something but holding back. Cordelia sat down, waiting

caught Merry

Merry’s phone vibrated again.

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

Merry’s face tensed.

expected the short video she’d recorded the previous day to