Chapter 214 Snubbed

• Sylvester's facial expression changed as he watched Anabel slip out of the hospital room. The moment she stepped past the doorway, something sharp coiled in his chest. A suffocating unease, the kind that clawed at his thoughts and refused to let go.
• What he was predicting was already unfolding right in front of him. Everything he had feared. Anabel was going after Desmond. Not in front of her family, not where emotions could be tempered by the presence of others, but privately.
• And that…that was dangerous. Because if this conversation led where he suspected it would. If she let herself soften even the slightest bit toward Desmond, all of his plans would crumble.