The Alpha's Unclaimed Mate (Jason and Laila) by Caroline Above Story novel Chapter 32

Laila's POV

Ava's breathing had finally evened out, turning soft and steady.

I sat beside her bed, running my fingers through her dark hair. She looked so small in that hospital bed. Too fragile.

The machines beeped around us. Heart monitor steady, but reminding me how precarious everything was.

Her surgery was next week, and there were always risks.

My phone buzzed on the bedside table. I glanced at it, expecting another text from work. They had been increasing as I spent more time at the hospital, spearheaded by a board member named Sheila, who was gossiping about how the “stress of my personal life” was preventing me from leading the company properly.

Instead, the name on the caller ID made my blood run cold.

Victor Harper. The real Vanessa Harper's grandfather.

I met the real Vanessa Harper when she was dying tragically young. We happened to look alike each other.

At the end of her life, she still had so many things that she wanted to do, so many people she hadn’t wanted to leave alone. She gave me the precious change to become her, when I needed a new name and new identity to start fresh.

We exchanged our life and death.

I hadn't heard from her grandfather in months. I had hoped that silence would continue indefinitely.

Nothing good ever came from the Harper family calling.

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