The Divorced Military Queen Awakens (by Sadie Baxter) novel Chapter 656

Chapter 656 Life on Edge

Chapter 656 Life on Edge

Dawn had no idea what those shrill beeps meant

But she understood enough to know the noise spelled danger.

Her mother’s face twisted, every twitch painting raw pain across pallid skin.

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The nurses hovered uselessly, hands fluttering in the air–anxious birds with nowhere to land.

“Mom!” Dawn lunged to the bedside and clutched her mother’s icy hand. “Mom, what’s wrong? Don’t leave me, please? I’ll grow up soon I swear–Mom… Mom…“.

Her pleas dissolved into the machine’s wail while the woman on the bed kept con eyes sealed inside unreachable darkness.

Just then, the assistant swept in again, a white–coated physician at his side.

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The doctor skimmed the readouts, pulled a vial from his kit, and pressed a needle into the patient’s arm with swift, practiced precision.

Moments later, the tremors ebbed, falling away like a storm retreating beyond the horizon.

Everyone heaved a sigh of relief.

The vice director turned to the assistant, eyes narrowed in cautious curiosity. “And this doctor is?”

“This is Dr. George Beaumont, a specialist in coma care,” the assistant explained. “Mr. Arnold flew him in personally to evaluate Dawn’s mother, and–fortunately–he arrived just in time.”

He crouched to Dawn’s level, softening his tone. You saw what happened, sweetheart. Your mom needs a better hospital, and that costs a lot. If you let Mr. Arnold adopt you, he’ll cover every penny of her treatment.”

Tears shimmered in Dawn’s ink–dark eyes. Fear still clung to her delicate face like morning frost.

She was terrified–terrified that her mother might vanish forever.

Only now did she truly grasp what death meant

If her mother died, the word “mom” would be nothing but an echo left behind in an empty

room.

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Chapter 656 Life on Edge

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“But… I don’t want to call anyone else my mom. have only one mom,” she whispered, voice trembling like a leaf in winter.

The assistant offered a gentle smile. “That’s perfectly all right. Mr. Arnold wants to help because he feels for you both. Your mother will get the care she deserves, and you’ll live at Mr. Arnold’s estate–safe, comfortable, and close to her.”

Still speaking in his smooth, practiced tone, the assistant let his eyes flick toward the vice director, arching one brow in a silent cue.

“Listen, Dawn, this is a chance most people can only dream of,” the vice director coaxed, leaning close as though sharing a secret. “Do you really want your mother left here to die while we wait? Say yes now, or if her condition worsens tomorrow, there may be no doctor willing to help.”

Terror blossomed across the little girl’s face, her lips quivering, eyes wide and words sank in.

I don’t want anything to happen to Mom. I want her alive!

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“I… I’m willing to be adopted–yes, I’m willing!” Dawn blurted, the words tumbling out before courage could slip away.

As long as Mom can get proper treatment, nothing else matters.

“Excellent,” the assistant said, a satisfied smile curling at the corner of his mouth as he closed his hand around Dawn’s tiny fingers. “Let’s go finalize the adoption paperwork right now.”

Dawn nodded her small head, then cast one last, frightened glance at her mother, who lay motionless on the narrow bed.

“Don’t worry,” the assistant soothed, guiding her toward the door. “Dr. George will stay beside her. The moment the paperwork is finished, she’ll be transferred to the hospital.”

Only then did Dawn allow herself to be led out of the dim care room.

No one noticed the faintest twitch of Quinn’s fingers on the sheet–so small it might have been a trick of light.

“If Ms. Megan comes back looking for me or Mom, could you please tell her I’m living with Mr. Arnold now and ask her to visit us there?” Dawn said once the adoption papers were stamped.

“Of course,” the vice director replied, a polished, empty smile stretching across his face.

He and Edmund had settled everything long ago: once the adoption was sealed, all former ties would be cut clean.

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