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.”

mean you were once husband and wife? Don’t forget that good husband of yours was the one who’d gotten another woman pregnant while he cheated on you behind your

sarcasm disgusted her. “Can we not talk about

becoming even more unpleasant. “You’re

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

and leave when she spotted the needle on the back of his palm and resisted the urge.

on him and scrolled through her phone, her head down. She did not

him afterward.

felt very uncomfortable.

he felt was even worse than that of

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

th

themselves at a

above him–the solution within had reached the

Chapter 99

called the doctor. “The IV’s almost

very quickly and removed the needle from his arm.

He handed

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

by his actions and struggled to break

fever had rendered his body weak. He could barely muster the strength to exert enough force, and his previous grip

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

tell you to press it onto his arm properly? Do

made Larissa inexplicably panicked