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."

her tongue inwardly. Bernard truly was a clean

"Then wait for me here. I'll be back in

let you go there

to be worried about? Bernard was becoming so protective of her that he was going to extreme lengths. "Let's go, then,"

efforts to stop her failed, Bernard couldn't

for

the people in the

necessarily

in his

him with an expression that said, "Didn't you say

they locked gazes, Bernard cleared his throat awkwardly. "Hold

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 wasn't like they

to the lower ground floor, where a middle-aged man sat on a ar chair by the morgue entrance. Even their footsteps couldn't wake the man up from

greeted as she walked over to him and rapped the table to wake the man

realized that the man and woman standing before him weren't medical

that was 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 just

deaf in one

Lawson!" Hera

put on his glasses and flipped through a book on the table. "Who are