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.

in self-defense since childhood under their grandfather's strict standards. Yet the bespectacled man

could have subdued him

little more than a fragile hope. She had never expected Sydney to rely on that single needle to protect herself, let alone use

knocked and stepped inside, leaning close

Florence, "Mom, something came up at work. I need to step out

right," Florence

Diana's line of work, confidential matters were

had grown used to such

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

trying to maintain 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

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

They repaid grudges in kind. To them, this was simply Penelope receiving exactly what she

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

Nina nodded. "Understood."

Flint Donovan? Any

Mr. Hutton this morning. He said the other side's counter-surveillance is extremely strong. They may also have anticipated from the start that we

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