Chapter 170 - Alice

“Mother!” Dante gasped, getting up from the table at the same moment to run to his mother, alarmed, while Heidi just cowered in her chair, clearly panicked.

Still sitting where she was, Alice just held Massimo's hand protectively, frightened by the fact that Emma looked like she had just gotten up from a hospital bed. Her hair was messy, very out of character for someone who had once been the queen of High Society. She was wearing a gray sweater and sweatpants set, clearly a comfortable and unstylish outfit that any doctor would order an intern to wear to the hospital, during treatment. She looked pale, and in one of her hands, Alice saw a bandage peeking out from under the long sleeves of her sweater, probably where a vein access had been, not long ago.

“Mom!” Dante’s voice was almost cracking with worry when the two finally approached, just a few inches away from the table where Massimo and Alice were still sitting “What are you doing here?! You couldn't have left the hospital so so