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

lost

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

a

hunched over it. After a

looked at him, perplexed, and finally just acknowledged with an “Oh.”

it

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

held on a bit longer, “…a little bit

chuckled, a sound more bitter than

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

“Yeah, off you

walked out, but after

through the window made Midnight Scent

appeared to live perpetually

school. The image of his disappointed face played on her mind. He must have recognized

into her pocket,

take one every two… no, three

sat at the dining table, savoring the sandwich Cordelia

bit cold, but still

he pulled out a bottle of pills identical to Cordelia’s.

he had to be the adult in the situation.

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

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

who had given her the

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

so upon arriving at school, she first talked to Latham before returning

but holding back. Cordelia sat down, waiting

Literature class, Cordelia caught Merry sneaking glances

Merry’s phone vibrated

saw a message from the platform moderator, “You’d better clear this up; it’s

Merry’s face tensed.

short video she’d recorded the previous day to