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.”

you mean you were once husband and wife? Don’t forget that good husband of yours was the one who’d gotten another

disgusted her. “Can we not

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

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

away and leave when she spotted the needle on the back of his palm

scrolled through her

to him afterward.

very

he felt was even worse than that of his

and angry at him, but he couldn’t bring himself to set aside his pride and make amends with her.

th

of them found themselves at a stalemate until her

bag above him–the solution within had reached the neck

Chapter 99

called the doctor.

and removed the needle from his

onto his wound for me.” He handed a cotton

on the back of his hand, and Larissa hurriedly pressed the cotton ball onto the entrance wound of the

by his actions and

he said that the fever had rendered his body weak. He could barely muster the strength to exert enough force, and his previous grip on her had been nothing

grip loosened and the cotton ball fell onto the bed. Blood trickled out from his

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

death made Larissa inexplicably panicked and, to some degree, fearful.