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.”

forget that good husband of yours was the one who’d gotten another woman pregnant while he cheated on you behind your

her. “Can we not talk about

becoming even more unpleasant. “You’re still devoted to him! You always will

Travis had always been a sore spot of hers. Moreover, he’d just passed away–she didn’t like

the needle on the back of his

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

him afterward.

felt 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

th

found themselves at

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

me.” He handed a cotton ball to

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

and struggled to break free instinctively.

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

grip loosened and the cotton ball fell onto the bed.

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

inexplicably panicked and, to some degree, fearful.