Their Villain, The Mogul's Beloved

Chapter 318

Seeing that Charlie and Alex were still busy discussing patient cases over dinner, Zinnia realized she wasn’t much help here and decided to get some fresh air. She said, “Charlie, you eat first. I’ll step outside for a bit.

“Sure, we’ll head home after I finish eating. Zinnia, don’t wander too far. Call me if you need anything.” Charlie said. He hadn’t eaten all day, and now that most of his work was done, he could finally sit down and enjoy a hot meal.

Zinnia closed the office door behind her and walked down the quiet corridor. She had heard from Alex that Anne was in the VIP ward on this floor.

Making her way to the innermost room, Zinnia peered through the glass door and saw Anne lying on the hospital bed, connected to a ventilator,

The ward was eerily quiet. No one was standing guard outside. After glancing around to confirm no one was nearby, Zinnia gripped the doorknob, quietly opened the door, and tiptoed in.

The ward was silent except for the steady beeping of medical monitors. Anne lay motionless on the hospital bed, showing no signs of consciousness.

Afraid of being discovered, Zinnia hurried to Anne’s bedside. Anne’s hand lay outside the covers. Zinnia bent down and checked her pulse. She thought, “Thank goodness, I’m in time. It’s not as bad as I feared.

Zinnia withdrew her hand. She took out her acupuncture kit and selected a slender silver needle. She glanced at Anne and murmured, “Though you’re on Betty’s side and always team up with her, I don’t want Ethan and the others to carry a guilty conscience.

“Besides, I don’t want your father to worry himself sick over you. You’ve got a good dad. I’ll help you this once. But if you ever bully me like Betty does, don’t expect any mercy from me.”

Zinnia decided to help Anne because she felt Anne was also a victim of the whole mess. Moreover, she didn’t want Ethan and the others to carry the guilt.

Ethan once said that if he and Brian had kept silent, maybe Betty wouldn’t have gone so far and hurt Anne. That thought weighed on Ethan and the others, leaving them with a lingering sense of responsibility.

In addition, Zinnia envied Anne for having a loving father. Her father didn’t like her, so when she saw Daniel anxiously worried about Anne, Zinnia felt a pang of envy.

Zinnia gently parted Anne’s hair, her fingers expertly finding the acupoint. With swift precision, she inserted the acupuncture needle and slowly rotated it between her fingertips, carefully guiding the clotted blood to a safer spot.

She thought, ‘By tomorrow, once her attending physician checks on her, she should be ready for surgery.

Zinnia could completely clear the blood clot for Anne, but that would raise suspicions. Besides, she couldn’t swallow her pride to save someone who stood on the opposite side of her.

After that, Zinnia checked Anne’s pulse once more and

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‘As long as these doctors aren’t complete quacks, Anne should wake up. But if they still can’t manage the surgery after this, I’ll just have to call them

smoothed Anne’s disheveled

was about to leave, a cold voice cut through the

what brings you here? Come to gloat over our family’s

on the

wore a black T–shirt, his features sharp and angular, but

anxiety and chose not to take offense at his harsh tone. She just

said, “You think just because you say she’ll be

Shaw family’s mess that got Anne into this state. How can you say that so casually? Do you

Yannis will always be there to clean up after you? Or

‘Since it isn’t someone she cares about, of course, she isn’t in a hurry. But facing Zinnia’s calm eyes, his anger toward her

mess. The Shaws are still trying to drag her down. If not for Yannis protecting her,

name come up so suddenly, Zinnia blurted out, “What does this have to do with

frustration in his chest, yet

looking for you?” Zinnia asked. She hadn’t seen Yannis in the past two days, and now that his name was mentioned,

was momentarily speechless. He thought, ‘Does she really know nothing?‘ Then he said, “Don’t tell me

know,” Zinnia replied plainly. The whole school’s been talking about Betty getting taken to the

station.

and said, “You should’ve gone to

a key figure in the incident, Zinnia should have been questioned by the police, but Yannis intervened to keep her out of it. Given that Anne’s life was hanging in the balance, the Carson family’s investigation

held a slight advantage, If things had escalated into an all–out power

stepped in at once

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