Under the heiress facade

Chapter 626

Bernard frowned, puzzled.

"Why are you heading to the lower ground floor?"

From what he knew, the morgue was on the lower ground floor.

"To take a look," Hera stated plainly.

"What's there to look at? Don't go." Bernard gripped her hand, refusing to let her leave.

Hera looked at him, surprised. A thought crossed her mind, and she narrowed her eyes at him as if she had discovered a huge secret. "Are you scared?" she asked.

Bernard let out a bark of cold laughter. "It's full of corpses. Why would I be scared of them?"

He had his fair share of seeing corpses when he was fighting at the frontlines back then.

A sinister smile crept onto Hera's face. "If that's so, why won't you let me go there?"

"That place is full of bacteria." Bernard scrunched his nose in disdain. "It's dirty in there."

tongue inwardly. Bernard

hand out of his grasp, she told him, "Then wait for me here. I'll be back in

way. I won't let you go

now. What was there to be worried about? Bernard was becoming so protective of her that he

stop her failed, Bernard couldn't

looking for somebody," Hera

all the people in the morgue

not necessarily

in his

face him with an expression that said,

cleared his throat awkwardly. "Hold

then went to look for a nurse to get two surgical masks and two pairs of gloves. He was about to ask the nurse for scrubs or antibacterial clothes, but Hera quickly stopped him. It

Bernard walked down the steps to the lower ground floor, where a middle-aged man sat on a ar chair by

over to him and rapped the table to

man's eyes snapped open, and when he realized that the man and woman standing before him weren't medical staff, he told them, "Leave. This isn't a

sent here not long ago. It belongs to Roman Killian," Hera explained. "Doctor what?" the man asked in his booming voice as he turned sideways, seemingly unable to hear Hera clearly

was probably deaf

Hera raised

glasses and flipped through a book on the