Encore of the Avenging Muse (Sylvia and Rupert) novel Chapter 484

When Sylvia came to, she found herself lying on the porch just outside her house, sucking in deep breaths of oxygen.

Ms. Ward was kneeling beside her, clutching Sylvia’s hand tightly, worry etched all over her face.

“She’s awake, she’s awake! Doctor, is she going to be okay?”

“It’s hard to say right now,” the paramedic replied, gently taking Sylvia’s blood pressure and offering reassurance. “We’ll need to get her to the hospital for some tests just to be sure.”

Ms. Ward, still anxious, blurted out, “I’m not talking about the gas—I mean her injuries!”

“Injuries? We didn’t find any wounds on her,” the doctor said, leaning closer to Sylvia. “Ma’am, are you feeling pain anywhere else?”

Sylvia shook her head. After breathing in the oxygen, she just felt a bit lightheaded, but nothing hurt.

Ms. Ward stared in shock and pointed at the smear of blood on her own front door. “Then… whose blood is that? You knocked so frantically before—I thought you crawled out, hurt.”

Hearing this, Sylvia’s mind flashed back to the last thing she remembered before blacking out.

A foreign man had been knocked to the floor, and then someone else came in…

But after that, her memory was a blank. She rubbed her aching forehead, trying in vain to piece it together.

“Ms. Ward, did you see blood anywhere else?” she asked.

“No,” Ms. Ward answered after a pause. “When I went into your place to open the windows, I didn’t see a single drop.”

So who was bleeding?

Sylvia stared at the bloody print on Ms. Ward’s door, her heart pounding with a strange, anxious ache.

Just then, the elevator dinged and opened again.

The EMTs thought it was their coworkers with a gurney, but it was actually a couple of cops and a downstairs neighbor.

“Excuse me, who lives here?” one officer asked.

Sylvia and Ms. Ward exchanged glances and raised their hands.

Ms. Ward spoke up, “Officer, what’s wrong?”

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