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 yours was the one who’d gotten another woman pregnant while he cheated on

sarcasm disgusted her. “Can we not talk about

becoming even more unpleasant. “You’re still devoted to

Travis had always been a sore spot of hers. Moreover, he’d just passed

about to turn away and leave when she spotted the needle

her back on him and scrolled through her phone, her head down. She did

him afterward.

very uncomfortable.

even worse than that of

was hurting and angry at him, but he couldn’t bring himself to set aside his pride

th

at a stalemate until her

him–the solution within had reached the neck of the

Chapter 99

the doctor. “The IV’s almost finished.”

doctor arrived very quickly and removed the needle

He handed a cotton ball to Larissa.

hurriedly pressed the cotton ball onto the entrance wound of the needle.

actions and struggled to break

weak. He could barely muster the strength to exert enough force, and his previous grip on her had been nothing but an

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

at Larissa. “Didn’t I tell you to press it onto his arm properly? Do you want

inexplicably panicked and, to