Unmasking the Heiress by Sisi Yea

Chapter 204

At last, the operating room light went off. The medics wheeled Lydia out, straight to the ICU.

The next 12 hours would tell if she would make it through without complications. If she did, she would be out of danger.

With the prisoner's life in jeopardy, the police on watch bore the weight of responsibility, standing vigil outside her room.

After Walter got the information, he wasted no time telling David to strengthen the security around Lydia. There was no way they were going to let her slip away.

Evangeline peered through the ICU's observation window at Lydia, who was hooked up to a bunch of tubes and fighting for every breath. A storm of rage swirled in her eyes. Was this karmic retribution?

It felt like just yesterday when her own mother, Yessica, was the one in the ICU, a tangle of tubes keeping her alive.

Was it time for the bad guys to get a taste of the same medicine?

Lydia finally had to live through agony worse than death-she was going to suffer a million times more than her mom ever did!

Evangeline's fingers traced Lydia's face through the glass, her teeth clenched in fury..

"Lydia, you better not die!"

ended his call with David when those

and saw her looking like

eyes were fiery red, locked on Lydia

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that instant, he got

a different light-she seemed so

butt heads with him, she was just a delicate soul who needed someone to watch over

reached out and gently rested his hand on

spun, her eyes locking with Walter's

reassured her, "Leave Lydia to

of quiet where Evangeline could hear the thudding of her own

heart raced,

wondered if it was because of Walter's

that emerged was as faint. and

caught her

in close, his ear next to her

her throat bobbing as she managed to ask, "Walter, can I trust

and Lydia was Julia's own mother.