Sweet Subterfuge by Trina Duo

Chapter 98

Larissa’s eyes were tightly shut, her breaths equal and steady. She was obviously already in a deep sleep.

Kevan smiled.

Barely a few minutes ago, she’d been the one adamantly insisting that she wasn’t tired at all.

What a liar.

She had promised–she’d said that she would never forget him. All those years ago-

He lifted his right hand after much struggle, the urge to caress her head fiercely rising within him, and yet, his arms halted before they could approach her.

His fingers curled into a fist.

Forget it. He should just let her sleep peacefully.

The ringing of a phone shattered the rare harmony between the two.

Larissa startled, bolting up immediately.

In her daze, she groggily picked up her phone and was about to stop the alarm when she noticed the string of

on her

the

that of the nurse who’d been in charge of Travis‘ care. ‘Ms. Seymour,

refused resolutely. “I’m sorry, I’m in

her to the bone, a sudden chill snaking down

shattered within her.

few seconds before asking

half an

“But how?”

nurse telling her that Travis was simply paralyzed and that his life

imminent danger.

sudden death was

but Larissa could still hear her voice trembling as she spoke. “He took his own life–he jumped off from the window in his room–his parents and brother had left that afternoon, and we didn’t have their contact numbers, so we

he paralyzed? How

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probably used his arms to support his body weight and climbed over to the window. There was also a chair next to the window–they think he used that to

Jumped.

breathing quickened, her vision blurring.

when she hated him with everything she

had been gradually dissipating ever since she knew that he’d been in

punishments they deserved, she no

in the slightest. In fact, a small part of her still