Chapter 7 - The Standoff in the Hallway
Within three minutes, four hospital security officers rushed down the corridor, summoned by the noise and the shattered ceramic vase. The lead officer, a burly middle-aged man named Captain Miller, pushed open the door and put his hands on his belt.
"Ma'am, we have reports of a disturbance in this room," Captain Miller announced sternly, looking at Wendy and her two bodyguards. "I need you and your men to step back and leave the floor immediately."
Wendy didn't even turn around. She merely raised her hand, and one of her lawyers—a slick man in a pinstripe suit who had just stepped off the elevator—handed Captain Miller a laminated document.
"I am Wendy Vance, primary board member of the Vance Healthcare Foundation," she declared with supreme authority. "Our foundation provided the twelve-million-dollar grant that constructed this entire maternity wing last year. If you touch my personnel, Captain Miller, you will be fired before you reach the lobby."
Captain Miller looked at the document, then at the hospital administrator who was running down the hall with a pale, nervous face.
"Captain, stand down!" the administrator panted, bowing respectfully to Wendy. "Mrs. Vance... we are so honored by your visit. Please, whatever you need—"
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Luca watched in utter horror as the institutional power of his mother's wealth swallowed the hospital whole, leaving him and Jessi completely isolated.
👉 Read PART 8 to see how Luca made a desperate bargain to save his family!
