Chapter 460
The sky had grown dim. From a distance, Evangeline hadn’t noticed anything unusual, but now, up close, she saw that Finn’s face was deathly pale. As white as a
sheet of paper.
Panic seized her.
“Finn?”
“Finn?” Evangeline called his name frantically.
Finn remained motionless.
“What are you all standing around for? Get him to the hospital!” Arabella snapped at the bodyguards she had brought.
Snapping back to reality, the bodyguards scrambled forward, clumsily hoisting Finn up and rushing him to the nearest hospital.
Finn was sent for a comprehensive examination, and the initial diagnosis came back quickly. He had external injuries and some minor internal trauma, but nothing critical.
“If it’s not that serious, why is he so pale? And why hasn’t he woken up yet?” Evangeline couldn’t help but ask.
She was so frantic she didn’t bother to soften her words. Her tone was sharp and demanding, so much so that it even made the doctor pause.
Arabella, who had been about to ask a question herself, stopped and gave Evangeline a puzzled look.
Glenn thought for a moment, then addressed the doctor. “He sustained an injury not long ago. It’s possible this is related to that old wound. Could you please run some further tests?”
The doctor nodded. “That’s a possibility. I’ll have it arranged.”
After the doctor left, Arabella shot a look at Evangeline before following him with her
men.
Evangeline stood frozen in place, a chilling cold seeping into her bones. A thousand terrible thoughts flooded her mind.
Old injuries.
Why hadn’t she thought of Finn’s old injuries?
Just a few days ago, he had fallen from that high cliff to save her. When she found him, his complexion had been awful. Later, when they returned, Finn hadn’t wanted to expose her in a public place because of Victor, so they had only called a doctor for a cursory check-up.
What if he had a life-threatening injury that had been missed, and now it was aggravated by this beating…?
Would he die?
The moment the word ‘die’ surfaced in her thoughts, Evangeline felt as if all the blood had been drained from her body, leaving her face a stark, pale white.
As if guessing what she was
thinking, Glenn gently put a
reassuring arm around her shoulder
“He’ll be okay. He doesn’t have any
fatal wounds. Don’t let your mind run witd.”
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“Let me take you to a doctor to get your wounds looked at.”
Evangeline was about to say she wasn’t hurt when she felt a stinging pain in her arm. She looked down and saw a large scrape, the blood already clotted. She must have gotten it when she fell earlier.
Her mind had been so tense and focused on Finn that she hadn’t even felt the pain.
Evangeline let Glenn lead her to get
her wound treated. The scrape was
large and looked alarming, but it was doctor
only a superficial wound. Th
cleanedut and wrapped it in gauze.
As they were leaving, Evangeline remembered the question she’d wanted to ask earlier.
“Was that letter really from Tessa?” she asked Glenn, a hint of doubt in her voice.
The timing felt too perfect. How could Tessa have known that Victor was going to make a move on her today? And how did she manage to get Glenn there at just the right moment?
She had wondered if Glenn, in his rush to save her, had forged the letter. But Victor had seen it and believed it, which made a forgery unlikely.
Glenn nodded.
“A stranger delivered the letter. It must have been someone Tessa sent.” Evangeline considered a possibility and paused. “Do you think… she might be in Serenity City right now?”
Glenn didn’t answer.
He had been thinking the same thing.
“But,” he mused, “The Lockridges have such an extensive network in Serenity City.
If Tessa really came back, Victor should have found her by now.”