Chapter 788:

“Freya…” Kristian murmured weakly, his voice touched with vulnerability. He pointed toward the IV drip with a pitiful look. “Can you make it stop? It’s uncomfortable.”

“Do as the doctor says, if you want to get better quickly,” Freya replied, her voice noticeably cooler than before.

Kristian immediately sensed the difference in her tone. He also noticed the shift in her demeanor.

Thinking back to the moment Ellis had pulled Freya out of the room, suspicion stirred in his mind. Had Ellis said something to her about his mental condition?

It didn’t matter to Kristian. Ellis had no solid proof, and he could keep pretending in front of Freya.

“Kristian Shaw,” Freya called his full name.

She didn’t speak with warmth, only a quiet detachment, as if she were addressing a stranger.

under the blanket, though his expression remained

“Why did you lie?”

“Lie?”

the perfect picture of innocence, as though he hadn’t the faintest clue what she meant. He was

you clearly had lunch and dinner. Why did you say you hadn’t eaten?” Freya asked, her voice lined with quiet reproach. “And last night,

frustration twisted inside

tone not unlike that

the IV, grabbed the blanket, and

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wasn’t his idea—that Gerard had told him to do it. But then he remembered that Freya knew Gerard too well. If he said

yank the blanket off or try to soothe him. Instead, her voice was firm. “If you don’t give me a real explanation for both things,

Kristian didn’t move.

Shaw,” Freya called

send me away, just do it,” came Kristian’s muffled voice from beneath the blanket, steeped in sorrow. “You don’t like me anyway. You don’t want

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