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

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

won't let you go there

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

how his efforts to stop her failed, Bernard couldn't help but ask, "Why do you

for somebody,"

people

necessarily the

in

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

gazes, Bernard cleared his throat awkwardly. "Hold

the nurse for scrubs or antibacterial clothes, but Hera quickly stopped him. It wasn't like they were going to

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

day," Hera greeted as she walked over to him and rapped the table to wake the man

before him weren't medical staff, he told them, "Leave. This isn't a place

look for the body that was sent here not long ago. It belongs to Roman Killian," Hera explained. "Doctor what?" the man asked in his booming

probably deaf

Lawson!" Hera

through a book