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.

started waking up gradually when the nurse

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

neighboring bed. It shook violently before the thermos on the table fell and was smashed to bits.

from the neighboring bed

walked in, surveyed the situation, and frowned. “What happened?”

earlier informed 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

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2 was none other than Mrs.

had previously been on the back of her right palm was indeed dislodged. Bright red blood was trickling through the entrance wound, but Mrs. Hardy seemed to barely

her hand bulged, and the speed

help her tamp the

away.

me!” she growled

her lips in disgust and

wound later,” she

ball in her palms. Before she could make a move, Mrs. Hardy started to climb out of the bed.

on her rubber shoes quickly and dragged Larissa