The Alpha's Unclaimed Mate (Jason and Laila) by Caroline Above Story novel Chapter 253

Laila’s POV

“It’s not proof,” I clarified. “It’s request to get more testing. It’s an indication that she might have a serious condition. But unless it says she’s actually dying, I don’t believe it will convince the judge.”

Hannah’s face fell, and I felt regret for being so blunt.

“But it gives us a start,” I said. “We know exactly where Vanessa went. To this specialist. If we go there, maybe we can follow the trail.”

“I have to get back before grandfather notices I’m missing…” Hannah said.

“I’ll go with you to the specialist,” Jason said to me. “We’ll get you the answers, and the proof.”

He seemed confident, so I tried to be too.

That confidence lasted for as long as it took us to get to the specialist’s office and speak to the woman at reception.

“I’m sorry,” she said. “But medical records are private, even for a diseased individual. Only a court order could unseal them.”

Okay. This was a setback, certainly. But if the court was going to move forward with the murder charge against me, then wouldn’t they have to confirm the cause of death? It wasn’t like I gave her cancer. Shouldn’t that clear me?

I wanted to believe it would, but with how things were going, I had my doubts. Maybe Adelaide had friends at the coroner’s office. Maybe that document would be flubbed as well. Anything to make me look guilty.

As we left the office, I said, “Maybe the letter will be enough, after all.” It had to be. It was all I had.

“I’m going to get you back to the hospital,” he said. “Or home, or wherever you’d like. Then I have somewhere to be.”

I looked at him, seeing the determination in his gaze. “What are you planning?”

“Nothing you need to worry about,” he said.

“Jason,” I pressed, but he wouldn’t tell me a thing.

Jason’s POV

Laila wanted to return to the hotel to see Ava, so that was where I took her dropping her off in front of the building. I waited, watching as she walked inside, knowing she was safe, before I put my ear in drive and pulled forward.

Within the territory of my pack, I had pull as Alpha. But outside of it, my status gave me clout but little actual power. I could not break the rules of the medical professionals. I could ask, but they wouldn’t give me any information about Vanessa’s condition. And if they told me, it would be in secret, off–record, nothing we could use in court.

I’d watch this farce go on long enough, so instead of trying to dig up more information, I drove to Victor Harper’s house, where I knew Adelaide had been staying. Not just from a guess. I’d had some of my pack following her since she left the courthouse.

She had been bold coming somewhere so public. She must have truly thought that she was untouchable. I was about to prove her

wrong.

Arriving at the Harper family home, I parked right out front and went up to the door. I knocked. The butler opened the door and I pushed past him.

“Where’s Adelaide?”

The butler turned red in the face, but it was Victor himself who answered, walking up the hallway

“What makes you think Adelaide is here?” Victor asked in that overconfident, sneering way of his. Even though I was in his house, standing right in front of him, he still acted like he had all of the power

“I know she’s here,” I said, not revealing my sources. “I’m an Alpha werewolf. I can smell her.”

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