Chapter 798

“No, no, no!”

Beatrice violently rejected the idea. “I can’t wait! I have to go now!”

Without waiting for a response, she shoved past Trixie and sprinted down the hall.

She didn’t return for the rest of the night. It wasn’t until early the next morning that she finally reappeared.

Beatrice brought her husband and son in tow.

“Where is my Zoe? Is she awake?”

Karla looked at the family of three, who were failing miserably to hide their gleeful anticipation. With a heavy sigh, she broke the news. “Last night, Sienna…”

Before she could even finish her sentence, Beatrice practically shouted over her. “Did something happen?”

“Did you fail to resuscitate her?”

“Is she dead?”

The rapid-fire questions made Karla want to slap her for being so blatantly stupid.

“Yes. She passed away,” Karla said, her voice dripping with cold sarcasm.

It was meant as a sarcastic jab, but the Darwin family bought it completely.

Hunter even raised his voice, feigning outrage. “What? How is that possible? Sienna

just made it through surgery! How could she be dead?”

“Did you people neglect her? Or was the surgery a botched job?”

“You owe us an explanation!”

Beatrice, originally just hoping to inherit her daughter’s fortune, suddenly saw an

even bigger opportunity. “Exactly! You have to answer for this!”

She hadn’t even considered extorting the hospital for a payout until now.

But the hospital and Karla had been so terribly rude to them.

They had constantly blocked their every move, refusing to let them do anything.

They were Zoe’s biological parents, yet they had been treated like money-grubbing parasites.

Karla was the worst of them all, guarding Zoe’s assets like a watchdog.

If they could use this to force Karla to cough up every last dime, it would be the ultimate payday.

“That’s right, don’t you think you owe our family some answers?”

The trio braced themselves for a massive, dramatic confrontation, only to find Karla

and the hospital staff looking utterly unfazed.

“Where is my daughter? What did you do to her?”

“I demand to see my daughter!”

Seeing the staff’s silence, Beatrice grew even more convinced that they were hiding their guilt.

As long as Zoe was dead, the money was guaranteed to be theirs!

“If you want to see her, we certainly won’t stop you. Trixie, why don’t you show them the way?”

At Karla’s command, the family finally noticed Trixie standing quietly in the corner.

As the person who had supposedly

shared the night shift with Beatrice,

Trixie’s eyes were red, as if

been sobbing for hours.

Beatrice felt a surge of smug satisfaction. Karla must have torn the poor girl apart.

Trixie had been the one on duty; now that disaster had struck, she was the perfect scapegoat.

Beatrice thought she was an absolute mastermind-or rather, that her husband was a genius for suggesting the setup.

They had even found someone else to take the fall.

“Hurry up, Trixie. Take us to my daughter,” Beatrice ordered, completely oblivious to her own arrogance.

Only Thomas managed to keep his expression somewhat restrained.

Trixie obediently led them down the hall toward Sienna’s room.

But as they approached, Beatrice frowned. This didn’t look like the ward from yesterday. Was it the morgue?

“This doesn’t look like the room my daughter was in yesterday,” Beatrice muttered suspiciously.

Trixie kept her face totally blank. “Sienna is in this room. She’s waiting for you.”

The Darwins assumed Trixie meant

they were going to view the body

one last time sending a thrill of excitement through all three of them.

The moment the door clicked open, Beatrice immediately switched into her grieving mother routine.

She let out a piercing wail. “Oh, my poor, sweet Zoe—Ah!”

Seeing a very much alive Sienna

sitting up in the hospital bed and et

staring right at her, Beatrice’s legs gave out, and she collapsed onto the floor in terror.

“A-A ghost?!”