The Stolen Life- My Mother Gave My Fiancé to Her Favorite Student novel Chapter 90

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“If you’re done, feel free to leave. Didn’t you say we should keep things professional? Or are you worried I’ll jump you?”

Jack’s expression darkened. Without another word, he turned on his heel and slammed the door behind him.

Late that night, a blaring alarm pierced through the sound of rain hammering the roof.

Olivia shot upright in bed. Lightning lit up the sky outside; thunder cracked loud enough to shake the windows.

She rushed to the window and yanked the curtain aside–just in time to see Jack throwing on a raincoat and running out into the storm.

A second later, they nearly collided in the hallway.

“Floods hit the riverbank,” he said, jaw tight, water dripping from his chin. “We’re being deployed for disaster relief.”

“Stay here,” he added firmly. “Don’t run around.”

Before she could respond, he was gone–swallowed by the rain.

Olivia stood frozen at the window, watching as military trucks roared out of the gates.

Just then, the cafeteria cook, Mrs. Jenkins, burst out of the staff quarters, sobbing. “My grandson’s

still in the housing units by the river! What do I do?!

Olivia didn’t hesitate. She grabbed a raincoat and ran out into the night.

By the time she arrived, the scene was chaos.

The riverbank had collapsed. Muddy floodwater churned, carrying branches and debris with it.

Soldiers shouted over the storm, their boots sloshing through knee–deep water.

Jack stood on a rise, soaked to the bone, barking orders in a hoarse voice. “Squad One–get the

civilians out of the east block! Squad Two–reinforce the levee! Move!”

Then everyone froze. As if they’d all seen a ghost.

Jack turned, following their stares.

There she was.

Olivia stood a few yards away, rain flattening her long hair against her pale face. She looked like

she’d stepped out of another world, like the chaos around her didn’t touch her–but everyone could

feel the weight of her presence.

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Olivia slowly came to as someone wiped her face with a warm towel.

“Captain Rivers, you haven’t slept in two days. I’ll stay with Olivia.”

“No need,” came Jack’s hoarse reply.

Before the nurse could insist, someone burst in. “Captain! Miss Ross has a fever again. She’s been calling your name nonstop!”

Jack hesitated, then stood up. “Take good care of her.”

His footsteps faded away.

When Olivia woke again, dusk was settling outside the window.

A round–faced female soldier sat by her bedside, letting out a relieved sigh. “Finally awake!”

Olivia’s eyes instinctively flicked toward the door.

The soldier quickly smiled, reading her mind. “Don’t misunderstand. Captain Rivers saved Miss Ross first, but he came right back and rescued you too. He’s been taking care of you ever since. He just went to check on her a moment ago. If you want to see him, I’ll call him for you.”

“No need,” Olivia’s voice was dry. “I want to know–have all the evacuees been moved?”

The soldier blinked. “Yeah, thanks to your help. You moved the most people during the flood. The whole unit’s impressed.”

She hesitated, reluctant. “But… are you really going to finish your retraining and head home soon?”

“Yes, I have to leave,” Olivia whispered.

But it wasn’t home she was returning to–it was the countryside, where she would marry.

After sending the soldier away, Olivia forced herself to get up and pack. Her suitcase was nearly bursting, yet the cherished photo of her mother was conspicuously absent.

“Looking for this?” Emily’s voice, laced with a familiar taunt, drifted from the doorway as she waved the yellowed photograph.

“Give it back!” Olivia snapped, standing abruptly as her vision blurred.

But Emily didn’t budge. Instead, she took two steps back, pulled a matchbox from her nurse’s pocket, and lit a match with an audible snap.

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