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.”

wife? Don’t forget that good husband of yours was the one who’d gotten another

sarcasm disgusted her. “Can we not talk

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

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

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

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

him afterward.

felt very

even worse than

him, but he couldn’t bring himself to set aside

th

themselves at a stalemate until her

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

Chapter 99

she called the doctor. “The IV’s almost

arrived very quickly and removed the needle from his arm.

wound for me.” He

had already surfaced on the back of his hand, and Larissa hurriedly pressed the cotton ball onto the entrance wound of the needle. Kevan took the opportunity to

and

and his previous grip on her had been nothing

cotton ball fell onto the bed. Blood trickled out from

I tell you to press it

death made Larissa inexplicably panicked and, to