"Hehe... They would be surprised..." Shuyin's soft laugh carried genuine amusement at imagining the Lu family's faces when they discovered empty examination rooms and discharge paperwork showing Yuyan had already been spirited away, their carefully orchestrated intervention rendered completely meaningless by timing and efficiency.
The helicopter flew away from the hospital vicinity with powerful acceleration, the building and its surrounding complex shrinking rapidly below them until it was just another structure in the urban sprawl, the frustrated family members reduced to invisible dots that couldn't possibly interfere with their escape.
The rotors beat steadily against the air as they climbed higher and banked toward home, leaving behind the chaos and violence and unexpected revelations of the past few hours.
