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 as she took

sandwich suddenly lost its appeal.

for the last bite of the sandwich, slumped in his chair, the image of dejection.

offer him a

lean figure hunched over

and finally just acknowledged with an

it for a while until

to let go and leave for class, was

a bit longer, “…a little bit longer.”

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

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of his hand and stood up, “Well,

“Yeah, off

slung her backpack over her shoulder and walked out, but after a few steps,

in through the window made Midnight Scent bright, but a shadow

to live perpetually in

moment before leaving for school. The image of his disappointed face played on her mind. He must have recognized the pills but

into her pocket, she clenched the bottle

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

the “distraught” Everard sat at the dining table, savoring the sandwich Cordelia had left behind.

but still delicious.

drawer, he pulled out a bottle

be

her, but it seemed someone else had beaten him

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

who had given her the pills?

Everard’s eyes. It seemed the group had

in the afternoon, so upon arriving

seemingly wanting to say something but holding back. Cordelia sat down, waiting for her to speak, but Merry

class, Cordelia caught Merry

phone

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

Merry’s face tensed.

she’d recorded the