Once a Doormat, Now Untouchable

Chapter 627

Inside a VIP ward at Sacred Heart Hospital, Florence slipped back into a deep, drowsy sleep after learning the night before that Sydney had returned home safely.

When she woke again, Theodore and Diana were both at her bedside, neither having left for a moment.

She did not look at Theodore. Her gaze settled on her eldest daughter, filled with distress. "Why didn't you go home all night either?"

"You're my mother. How could | feel at ease if | weren't here?" Diana replied.

Faint exhaustion lingered in her brows and eyes, but she was long accustomed to it

She helped Florence to the bathroom to wash up, then, at her mother's insistence, recounted everything that had happened the previous night in meticulous detail.

Even though everyone had returned safely, Florence listened with her heart lodged in her throat. "You're saying she took down aman over six feet tall, all by herself?"

"Yes." Diana nodded, a quiet admiration surfacing for her younger sister.

self-defense since childhood under their grandfather's strict standards. Yet the bespectacled man had clearly been well trained as well. If she had

have subdued him so

needle into the coat's sleeve, she had been clinging to little more than a fragile hope. She had never expected

inside, leaning close to

and told Florence, "Mom, something came up at work. I

Florence

line of work, confidential

Huttons had grown used to

outside the ward, after Nina closed the door, the warmth drained from Diana's eyes, leaving only

still trying to maintain the pregnancy, but it doesn't look promising. The Wolfens contacted Sacred Heart this morning and asked to transfer her

lightly, cutting her off. “Withdraw our people for now. There's no need to keep watching

repaid grudges

day find her youngest daughter, Florence had spent years giving to charities and helping others, as if goodwill could balance the scales. If she learned the full truth,

Nina nodded. "Understood."

Flint Donovan?

morning. He said the other side's counter-surveillance is extremely strong. They may also have anticipated from the start that we would tail them and deliberately used decoys to draw our

unit two full years, along with the sacrifice of undercover officers, to