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

and began to eat her breakfast sandwich, but as she took a bite, she heard

sandwich suddenly lost its appeal.

bite of the

help but offer him a sandwich, “why aren’t you

hunched over it. After

perplexed, and finally just acknowledged with

it for a while until he finally spoke,

and leave for class, was taken

bit longer, “…a

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

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let go of his hand and stood up,

nodded. “Yeah, off you go.”

shoulder and walked out, but

window made Midnight Scent bright, but a shadow seemed to

to live perpetually in the

disappointed face played on her mind. He must have

Reaching into her pocket, she clenched the bottle

every two… no, three days. Just

the dining table, savoring the sandwich Cordelia had left behind.

cold, but still delicious.

a drawer, he pulled out a bottle

to be the adult in

prepared the same medicine for her, but it seemed someone

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

had given her the pills?

crossed Everard’s eyes. It seemed the group

upon arriving at school, she first

entered, she noticed Merry acting furtively, seemingly wanting to say something but holding

caught Merry sneaking glances at her phone.

phone

moderator, “You’d better

Merry’s face tensed.

expected the short video she’d recorded the previous day to go viral.