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

eat her breakfast sandwich, but

sandwich suddenly lost

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

help but offer him a

figure hunched over it. After

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

Everard’s hand, she held it for a while until he finally spoke, “Is

and leave for class, was

bit longer, “…a little bit longer.”

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

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hand and stood up,

nodded. “Yeah, off you go.”

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

window made Midnight Scent bright, but a

to live perpetually in the

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 was so upset he

her pocket, she clenched the bottle of pills.

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

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

cold, but

a

he knew he had to be the adult in the situation.

but it seemed

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

had given her

seemed the group had been too idle

afternoon, so upon arriving

but holding back. Cordelia sat

Cordelia caught Merry

phone vibrated

message from the platform moderator, “You’d better clear this up; it’s not looking good.”

Merry’s face tensed.

video she’d recorded the previous day to go