The Billionaire's Pretend Wife (Isabella) novel Chapter 86

When Isabelle left her hospital room accompanied by Seth, Naomi appeared from behind the corner she was hiding in.

She watched the backs of the two as they left, unaware that she had been at the door while they talked, and she had heard everything.

Isabelle was pregnant with Jacob’s child? Naomi clenched her teeth and huffed. She was going to do everything she could to make sure that her adoptive sister left the city as soon as she could. Before Jacob woke up, and before Isabelle found out Jacob was actually Logan Larson.

Naomi wasn’t going to let her win this time. She was the one who was supposed to marry Jacob in the first place. And now that she knew his real worth, she wasn’t going to let her stupid adoptive sister keep him. If Jacob woke up and found out about the baby…

She shook her head. That couldn’t happen. She wanted Isabelle out of his life completely. When he woke up, she would be nowhere to be found. Once Naomi let him know that his wife had eloped with another man, it would be game over.

Turning away, she headed towards the VIP hospital wing where she knew she would find Jacob Garcia.

Since that day she had discovered that her sister’s husband was actually a billionaire and not the poor man he presented himself to be, she had been looking for a way to get close to him.

But it was as if all of a sudden, he had disappeared into thin air. He hadn’t even made any threats to her parents concerning their deception. They had been apprehensive for days, with Francis even trying to have a meeting with the Garcia family to apologise. But they had informed him that Jacob was on important business abroad, and they could meet when he got back.

Naomi had begun working on finding the exact whereabouts of Jacob. That was when one of her rich friends mentioned that the owner of the Larson Group was in an accident, but the company was keeping it under wraps. She had received that information the previous night.

When she woke up in the morning, she headed to the Larson hospital to see for herself. Running into Isabelle had been total coincidence, and she felt that luck was on her side.

Now that she knew Isabelle had been planning to quit her job and leave the city, she was going to make sure that she stuck to her plan.

When Naomi got off the elevator on the VIP wing, she noticed that the nurses’ station was empty, and she walked right past it as quickly as she could. She came across one of the private wards, but the name on the door wasn’t Jacob’s.

She hurried to the other one, but before she could check, one of the doors opened and a nurse appeared. Naomi was barely able to duck into a hallway branching off the main corridor before the woman saw her. She pressed her back to the wall and remained still. There were two voices, a man and a woman. If she remained still and didn’t make a sound, they would walk right past her.

“I expect Mr. Garcia will wake up very soon,” the man said. “Keep me informed about any changes, Melinda. As soon as they happen. His vitals are stable, and his scans look good. I want to keep it that way.”

“Of course, doctor.”

The two walked past and didn’t notice her. She didn’t have time to think. Before they got to the nurses’ station and the nurse got behind the desk which would allow her to see down the hallway, Naomi slipped out of her heeled shoes and tiptoed out of her hiding place.

She hurried to the door the two had appeared from and turned the handle. It gave, and she opened it quickly and slipped into the room. She closed the door quietly and stood there, holding her breath and listening. Nothing. They hadn’t seen her.

Sighing, she finally took a look towards the bed in the room.

Lying there was Jacob Garcia.

All hers for the taking.

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That evening, Isabelle made her way to the apartment building where she and Jacob had lived. She was extremely nervous, but there was no going back.