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!"

had just ended his call with David when those words hit

at Evangeline and saw her looking like she had been

was ghostly pale, but her eyes were fiery red, locked on Lydia in the

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that instant, he got

a different light-she seemed

tough talk and the way she would butt heads with him, she

out and gently

her eyes locking with

reassured her, "Leave

eerily silent, a kind of quiet where Evangeline could hear the

Her heart raced, picking

was because of Walter's unexpected

that emerged was as faint. and

her words the

ear next to

bobbing as she managed to ask, "Walter,

had been Walter's treasure, and Lydia was Julia's own mother. How could he