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.

Yet the bespectacled

she could have subdued him so

had never expected Sydney

knocked and stepped inside, leaning close to

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

right," Florence replied, without

Diana's line of work,

Huttons had grown

warmth drained from Diana's eyes, leaving

doesn't look promising. The Wolfens contacted Sacred Heart this morning and asked to transfer her here so

cutting her off. “Withdraw our people for now. There's no need to keep watching that side. And don't mention this to

how they handled matters, but their principles aligned. They repaid grudges in kind. To them, this was simply Penelope receiving exactly what

was at stake. In the hope that she might one 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 her heart

Nina nodded. "Understood."

Flint Donovan? Any

other side's counter-surveillance is extremely strong. They

once took the entire anti-narcotics unit two full years, along with the sacrifice of undercover officers, to gather enough evidence to bring Flint