Chapter 424

Chapter 424:

“Eight million.” Kyla raised the offer.

“Still too low for the risk.”

“Ten million. That’s my last offer,” Kyla responded tersely.

The tone on the other end shifted from dismissive to obliging.

“Well, Miss Wade, that’s more like it. I’ll take the job. Who’s the target?”

Kyla articulated each syllable with precision.

“Laura Stewart, at the downtown hospital.”

“Consider it done, Miss Wade. It will be handled discreetly, without any complications.”

Kyla hung up the phone and slumped onto the bed, her body shaking uncontrollably.

was heavy with

Sadie stirred, blinking away the grogginess

IV drip marking time with its consistent ticks, filling

Sadie’s voice was faint, her throat

to sit up, but her strength failed her; she could only manage to turn her head, her eyes catching sight of the white lilies arranged

the corner of her

coat, mask, and cap, was almost entirely

syringe, moving toward Laura’s

felt a surge of

where

of the doctor’s face, but he remained bowed,

silently lifted Laura’s IV tube,

Sadie mustered all her energy to shout. “What

posture tensing for

on his forehead under the bright lights of the ward, and his eyes betrayed a

it’s just a nutrient solution,”

settled

was just a nutrient solution, what was with all the cloak-and-dagger stuff? Sadie recognized all the doctors who treated Laura,

legitimate doctor acted so

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