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.

sat on a bench lacing

she listened intently for Asters number to

drawn to a strange

the hot weather in summer, that person was wrasped up tightly in a long-sleeved coat long pants, a cap, and a

that person had the collar of their coat pulled up to cover their neck from being

seemed to be a

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

from the top floor to the

see that woman’s face, even

taken aback. That suspicious woman was none other than

quickly lowered her head and obscured Aster’s profile with

her worries

even make eye contact with anyone. She got off the escalator in a hurry. rushed

long after Lana left,

chickenpox in young children was

Lenssa’s description of Aster’s condition, he look less than two minutes to write

the way back home and prepared to