Sweet Subterfuge by Trina Duo

Chapter 99

After hanging up, Larissa realized that Kevan was staring at her.

The two of them had been very close. Her conversation with the nurse earlier had been overheard by him

entirely.

“Do you want to go?” he asked her.

“No.” Her reply was swift with no trace of hesitation in her voice.

Kevan sighed in relief.

Still, he couldn’t help but ask, “Because there’s no cable car?”

“I wouldn’t go even if there was.” Larissa wiped away the few drops of tears leaking through the corner of her eyes as she spoke, her expression blank.

She most probably wouldn’t be attending his funeral either–if only to avoid encountering his family members.

Seeing her tears, Kevan’s heart sank.

“Are you sad that he’s no longer alive?”

“A bit.” Larissa’s answer was frank. “We were once husband and wife after all.”

that good husband of

disgusted her. “Can we not

darkened further, his tone becoming even more unpleasant. “You’re still devoted to him! You

Moreover, he’d just passed away–she didn’t like to speak ill of

leave when she spotted the needle

turned her back on him and scrolled through her phone, her

him

felt very uncomfortable.

worse than that of his fever.

but he couldn’t bring himself to set aside his pride and make

th

two of them found themselves at a stalemate until her alarm

the IV bag above him–the solution within had reached the neck of the bag.

Chapter 99

the doctor. “The

arrived very quickly and removed the needle from

onto his wound for me.” He handed a cotton

hand, and Larissa hurriedly pressed the cotton ball onto the entrance wound of the needle. Kevan took the

his actions and struggled to break free instinctively.

He could barely muster the strength to exert enough force, and his previous grip on her had been nothing but an instinctual reaction. Now, he hadn’t been able

and the cotton ball fell onto the bed. Blood trickled out from his wound once again.

at Larissa. “Didn’t I tell you to press it

made Larissa inexplicably panicked and,