Sweet Subterfuge by Trina Duo

Chapter 421

Overwhelmed with heartache, Larissa bent down and held him tightly in her arms.

She rushed Aster out of the kindergarten and to the miilary hospital nearby registering as an outpatient at the pediatrics department.

The millary hospital was usually crowded with patients, especially the pediatrics department.

Aster had never had serious health issues belere. He’d only had mild cases of colds and fevers that could be easily treated at home with over-the-counter medication.

Larissa had hardly ever brought Aster to the hospila. before, so they were unfamiliarwith the anxiety of waiting in long queues to see the doctor at the hospital,

She didnt mind waiting if she were the one who was sick. However, Larissa couldn’t bear to wall for even a second longer when it was Aster who was II.

She feared that any delay would worsen Aster’s condition

Her heart pounding. Larissa paced up and down restessly. She wished to rush into the culpatient canic that instant, but she knew that all the parents waiting outside felt the same anxiety.

In the end. Larissa suppressed her impatience and waited patiently.

a bench lacing the

eyes stared mindlessly at the constant low of patients as she listened intently for Asters number to be called over

her paze was drawn to a strange

person was wrasped up tightly in a long-sleeved coat long pants, a cap,

collar of their coat pulled

seemed to be

locking up, that peculiar woman fixed her gaze on the ground and kept her prolive

the escalator from

Larissa sat, she could see that woman’s face, even though only her eyes could be

suspicious woman was none other

she quickly lowered her head and obscured Aster’s profile with her

her worries

end. Lana did not even make eye contact with anyone. She got off the escalator

Lana left, Aster’s

chickenpox in young children

Aster’s condition, he look less than two

Asteral the way back home and