Encore of the Avenging Muse (Sylvia and Rupert)

Chapter 484

When Sylvia came to, she found herself lying on the porch just outside her house, sucking in deep breaths of oxygen.

Ms. Ward was kneeling beside her, clutching Sylvia's hand tightly, worry etched all over her face.

"She's awake, she's awake! Doctor, is she going to be okay?"

"It's hard to say right now," the paramedic replied, gently taking Sylvia's blood pressure and offering reassurance. "We'll need to get her to the hospital for some tests just to be sure."

Ms. Ward, still anxious, blurted out, "I'm not talking about the gas-I mean her injuries!"

"Injuries? We didn't find any wounds on her," the doctor said, leaning closer to Sylvia. "Ma'am, are you feeling pain anywhere else?"

Sylvia shook her head. After breathing in the oxygen, she just felt a bit lightheaded, but nothing hurt.

Ms. Ward stared in shock and pointed at the smear of blood on her own front door. "Then... whose blood is that? You knocked so frantically before I thought you crawled out, hurt."

Hearing this, Sylvia's mind flashed back to the last thing she remembered before blacking out.

A foreign man had been knocked to the floor, and then someone else came in...

But after that, her memory was a blank. She rubbed her aching forehead, trying in vain to piece it together.

see blood anywhere else?" she

went into your place to open the

So who was bleeding?

Ward's door, her heart pounding with

the elevator dinged and

but it was actually a

lives

Ward exchanged glances and

spoke up,

"Your neighbor downstairs called

Ms. Ward and Sylvia

Ward protested. "They must

neighbor shook her head. "I know what I heard. I've been to shooting ranges in the States. That was

back into her living room. Sure enough, one of her throw pillows was missing from the

foreign man had forged

come here to kill her he wouldn't have taken away evidence that proved she'd tried to

about to speak, but Sylvia squeezed

big misunderstanding," Sylvia said quickly. "had a bit too much wine and forgot to turn off the stove. I got a little carbon monoxide

neighbor opened her mouth to object, but Sylvia looked at Ms.

"Look, the doctor and the