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.

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

she could have subdued him so

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

Diana spoke, Nina knocked and stepped inside, leaning close to whisper in her

came up at work.

Florence

of work,

had grown used to

warmth drained from Diana's eyes, leaving only a cold calm. "Did the Wolfens end up with a death on

the pregnancy, but it doesn't look promising. The Wolfens contacted Sacred Heart this morning and asked to transfer her here so Dr. Chrysous from obstetrics could take over. Their request was

enough," Diana said lightly, cutting her off. “Withdraw our people for now. There's no need to keep watching that side. And don't mention this to my

siblings differed in how they handled matters, but their principles aligned. They repaid grudges in kind. To them, this was simply

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, the burden might be more than

Nina nodded. "Understood."

about Flint Donovan?

is extremely strong. They may also have anticipated from the start that we would tail them

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