Rise Of A Shattered Luna (Natalie) by Kave Derry novel Chapter 109

Chapter 109 The Possibility Of Blood Ties

Chapter 109 The Possibility Of Blood Ties

Natalie’s POV

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“If you cooperate with your treatment,” Baron continued, his eyes narrowing slightly, “I’ll let her come sit with you every morning. But if you don’t I won’t allow her back. Do you understand?”

Ruby immediately straightened, her hands clutching the sheets. She blurted out the words before he could even finish: “I’l cooperate! I’ll be active with treatment, I promise. I’ll eat everything they bring. I’ll sleep. Just…. don’t take her away”

“Good,” Baron nodded. “Then, Mrs. Stone, we’ll see you tomorrow.”

He reached out and took my hand as he led me away.

I found myself wondering about the witch doctor… When did he leave?

The warmth from Baron’s hand seemed to bring me back to reality… I can’t believe I was thinking about another man.

“Mrs. Stone really is pitiful,” I murmured as the elevator doors slid shut.

I needed to fill the silence to at least try to ease my conscience.

Baron gave a faint smile, “Have you ever thought you might actually be her daughter, Natalie? That the resemblance isn’t a mere coincidence?”

“How is that possible?” I cut him off at once, the thought of it made my heart race. “I asked Mr. Stone about their history while you were with the doctors. He told me about how they lost their daughter… If I really were that daughter, Baron, how would I still be alive?”

I shook

my head, shaking the thoughts away. “If I were her child, I’d have been gone already.”

“Not necessarily.”

His words made me falter. I looked up at him, searching his eyes for a sign that he was joking, but there was only sincerity and confusion that matched mine.

“What do you mean?” I whispered.

He leaned in slightly, his scent enveloping me. “Newborns all look nearly the same at three days old, Natalie. If a switch happened then, how would they know? If you want to know the absolute truth, a DNA test would answer that.”

I frowned, my heart hammering against my ribs. “That doesn’t seem right… Mrs. Stone mistook me because of her grief. If I went to them with a DNA test, wouldn’t people think I was mad? Wouldn’t the world think I was just an opportunist trying to claim a Stone inheritance?”

Baron hesitated, his thumb stroking the back of my hand. “The father and son already took your hair sample, Natalie. While you were absorbed in that drawing, Flynn took what he needed. They’re running a test as we speak. In about three days, the lab will have an answer.”

“What?” I stared at him in genuine shock, touching my hair to guess where he had taken.

“You knew? You let him do it?”

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Chapter 109 The Possibility of Blood Ties

“Are you angry?” he asked, his voice dropping, watching my reaction closely.

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“No,” I said, shaking my head slowly. “All the skin on my body came from the Stone family anyway. I am already made of them, in a way and if my presence can help Mrs. Stone heal her mind, then I’ll count it as repaying their kindness. It’s only a strand of hair… If they want to test, let them test. I have nothing left to lose.”

I felt calm, but I saw a flash of irritation cross Baron’s face.

Baron’s POV

I hated that look on her face – the quiet resignation of a woman who given up on finding her real family.

We reached the car, and once we were shielded by the tinted glass, I pulled out a set of documents I had gotten weeks ago and set them on the leather seat between us.

“Look at the hospital records, Natalie. Truly look at them.”

She hesitated, then picked up the file. Her eyes scanned the data, the dates, the locations. “What is this?”

“More than twenty years ago,” I said, my voice sharp and clear, “Mrs. Stone and the woman you once called your mother gave birth at the exact same facility. In the same wing. On the same night.”

“What?” Natalie froze, the paper crinkling in her grip. “How could it be such a coincidence?”

Her eyes widened in disbelief, her breath hitching.

I nodded slowly, “strange, isn’t it? That’s why it needs checking. We already know the history of that night was a mess but it was discovered years later that Sharon and another child were switched.”

Natalie’s face was scrunched up as she listened intensely, “Sharon was taken home by a rural family, but blood tests later proved you weren’t the biological child of the Summers either. You were the ‘other‘ child in that equation… So, what if there wasn’t just one mix–up? What if there was a third?”

I watched her mind working more now, “If that’s the case,” I continued, “then the Stone family may well be your true parents. The child who ‘died‘ might not have been theirs at all.”

Natalie’s lips curved faintly, a, sad smile that reached her eyes for the first time. “Do you really think it was a switch at birth? Or are you just trying to give me a family because you think I’m lonely?”

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