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

sandwich, but

sandwich suddenly lost its

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

offer him a sandwich, “why aren’t you

hunched over it. After

him, perplexed, and finally just

quickly finished her breakfast. Taking Everard’s hand, she held it for a

let go and leave for class, was

on a bit longer, “…a little

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

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

“Yeah, off you

out, but after

Scent bright, but a

live perpetually in

her mind. He must have recognized the pills but played ignorant to spare her feelings. And

into her pocket, she clenched the

every two… no, three days. Just enough to

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

bit cold, but still

a bottle

he had to be the adult in the situation.

it seemed someone else had beaten him to

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

had given her the pills?

Everard’s eyes. It seemed the group had been too idle

had an art exhibit to attend with Lorna in the afternoon, so upon

say something but holding back. Cordelia sat down, waiting for her

caught Merry sneaking glances at her phone.

Merry’s phone vibrated again.

the platform moderator, “You’d better clear this up; it’s not

Merry’s face tensed.

the short video she’d recorded