Sweet Subterfuge by Trina Duo

Chapter 39

After the doctor examined Mrs. Hardy, he found that other than her fever, there was nothing else wrong with her. So, he arranged for her to receive an intravenous drip on a bed in the ward. He also prescribed a few boxes of cold and cough medication

for her.

When Larissa returned from the pharmacy, Mrs. Hardy was still unconscious.

The nurse told her to remove the wet clothes from the woman’s body to prevent her condition from exacerbating. Larissa felt a wave of repulsion from the bottom of her

heart.

She tried to call Travis, but his phone was still turned off. Then, she tried to contact Andrew, but he was unreachable despite her multiple attempts. She even suspected that Andrew had already blocked her number.

As for Mr. Hardy–she never even saved his number in the first place.

Helplessly, Larissa slipped a hundred dollar note to the nurse tending to the next bed and had her change Mrs. Hardy’s clothes for her.

The three bags of IV fluids ordered by the doctor had been administered for almost two hours now. Consequently, Larissa had sat by Mrs. Hardy’s bed for almost two

hours as well.

gradually when the

saw Larissa, she pushed away the nurse violently, completely disregarding the needle still stuck on her arm. She threw herself

two steps before accidentally knocking into the bedside table of the neighboring bed. It shook violently before the thermos on the table fell and was smashed to bits. Not only that, the hot water from the thermos had even splashed all

patient from the neighboring bed

in, surveyed the situation, and

the new nurse, “Please call in more people to clean up this mess, oh, and the patient from bed 2’s needle is dislodged. Could you please

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from bed 2 was none other than Mrs.

on the back of her right palm was indeed dislodged. Bright red blood was trickling through the entrance wound, but

Larissa, her grip tight. The veins on the back of her hand bulged, and the speed of the blood flowing out

to help her tamp the bleeding when Mrs. Hardy ducked

away.

dare touch me!” she growled ferociously.

nurse was taken aback. She pursed her lips in

wound later,” she

palms. Before she could make a move, Mrs.

rubber shoes quickly and dragged Larissa toward