The Billionaire's True Heiress From Fake Jewel to Real Crown novel Chapter 1569

They had all been eating together, and seeing everyone leave, Sergeant Wu felt awkward sitting there alone and moved to follow.

Claire glanced at his heavily slung arm. "Sergeant Wu, stay here and finish your food. We don't need a crowd."

"Besides, you're heavily injured. Eat up and recover."

Sergeant Wu tried to insist, but the others quickly convinced him to stand down.

"Let's go. I need to see this for myself."

Claire took the lead, and the nurse practically sprinted ahead.

"We need to hurry!"

The nurse led Claire straight into the ER.

The shepherd had originally been transferred to a standard ward, but the sudden hemorrhaging had forced an emergency relocation.

Claire followed the nurse directly into the trauma bay.

She immediately leaned over the bed to check the shepherd's vitals, but the second her fingers brushed his wrist, the shepherd locked his grip around her arm like a vice.

His eyes were dead and filled with lethal intent, entirely devoid of the panicked innocence he had projected on the highway.

"You really are a Daybreak operative!"

Claire had suspected the shepherd was a plant from the beginning.

Otherwise, the timing of the goat avalanche trapping them between two hit squads was far too coincidental.

But when the shepherd actually took two bullets, she had momentarily dismissed the theory.

While operating on him in the vehicle, she had discreetly analyzed his overall physiology.

He was in peak physical condition. There was absolutely no medical reason for him to be vomiting blood, regardless of how hard he hit the floorboards.

Furthermore, the calluses on his hands didn't match the agricultural wear-and-tear she had seen on the uncles in The James Village!

Claire had mentally flagged him right then and there.

After admitting him to the hospital, she had quietly ordered Jace to keep the man under strict surveillance.

She had also shared her suspicions with Dane.

That was why a single glance from her was all it took for Dane to understand the play.

Dane, in turn, had undoubtedly filled Stephen in.

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