The Alpha's Unclaimed Mate (Jason and Laila) by Caroline Above Story novel Chapter 208

Chapter 208

Riley.

I grabbed the phone with both hands, unlocked it and brought it to my ear. “What’s going on?” I asked in hurry. “Is everything okay?”

“No,” Riley said. “Nothing’s okay. Ava’s healers were just in here. Security too. They’re taking her somewhere. To some specialist? Vanessa, you have to get down here. Now. They won’t tell me anything. They say I’m not family.”

“I gave you permission. You are on all the forms

“They don’t care about that.”

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In the background, I could hear Ava crying, “Aunt Riley!”

Riley’s voice cracked. “Get here, please.”

My feet were already moving.

At the hospital, I rushed to Ava’s room, only to find it empty. Riley was down the hall, speaking with the nurses at the nurses‘ station, waving her arms dramatically.

“Riley! What’s going on? Where is Ava?” I couldn’t keep the panic from my voice. My heart ran rampant in my chest, pounding against my ribcage. Ava was the most important thing in the world to me. She was supposed to be protected!

“I’m trying to find out,” Riley said, her eyes filled with pain and worry. “No one will tell me anything, but – here! This is Ava’s mother! Surely you can tell her?” The last few words were spoken to the nurses.

They looked at me. I recognized some of them. One of them looked apologetic, while the other more stern.

“Where is my daughter?” I demanded.

“There’s no reason to be upset,” said the stern one.

“An order came through, removing Ava from our care,” said the nicer one.

“And you okayed it without my consent?”

“The order said you and your family already consented,” the nice one said.

“She’s going to a specialist,” said the sterner one. “It’s not like we kicked her out onto the street.”

“Which specialist? Where?” I asked.

“It’s all in the paperwork we gave your family member,” the stern one said.

“What family member?” I didn’t have any family. Unless… oh Gods. Not Adelaide. “Who approved this?”

“The hospital president approved it personally,” the nice one said.

“And where is he?” Riley asked.

“We can’t tell you that,” said the stern one.

“He’s in his office. Top floor,” said the nice one. The stern one hushed her, but that didn’t stop her. She looked at the stern on sharply. “This isn’t right and you know it. I don’t care who told us what. We should have waited to hear from the mother.”

As much as I wanted to be a part of this scolding, I couldn’t waste time, not with Ava missing, potentially in danger.

Turning, I ran up the hallway to the stairwell, Riley on my heels.

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“I’m sorry,” she said as we raced.

I shook my head. There was nothing she could have done, but I wasn’t ready to even think about this right now. When Ava was safe, there would be time for explanations and forgiveness. But until that happened, I couldn’t spend time or thought on it.

Ava was all that mattered.

When we ran out of stairs to go up, we poured out of the stairwell onto the top floor. I looked desperately to the right and to the

left.

To the left, a door opened down the hall, and the sound of shrill, fake laughter spilled into the hallway.

Adelaide and an older man, presumably the hospital president stepped out into the hallway. Adelarde continued to laugh, like the president had told some big joke.

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