Wedding My Ex’s Uncle

Chapter 44 The Wedding Is Tomorrow

“What? What happened?” Kaia felt her blood run cold.

The doctor’s voice was hesitant. “We… We don’t know. She was perfectly chipper this morning. But then… a woman came to visit her. Not long after the woman left, Madam Domont just fainted.”

Kaia shot to her feet. “Which woman?!”

The doctor was startled by her intensity. “I… I’d never seen her. One of the caregivers said… I think her last name was Thorne.”

In an instant, Kaia’s gaze turned arctic, freezing the air.

Thorne?

Could it be Luna?

Kaia clenched her phone tightly, her fingertips turning white. “Which hospital? I’m on my way!”

****

Alden pressed Kaia’s doorbell repeatedly, the sound echoing through the hallway for ten straight minutes.

The neighboring door creaked open, and a woman stuck her head out. “The young lady left this morning,” she said irritably. “Stop that incessant ringing before you give me a headache.”

Alden wilted under her glare and retreated downstairs.

Kaia had blocked his number, all social media accounts, and every other way to reach her. He was completely cut off.

Frustration coiled tight in Alden’s chest.

The wedding was tomorrow, yet she hadn’t even attempted to make things right. She must know her father and Tobias had finalized the partnership details. What choice did she have but to marry him?

Despite his anger, genuine concern nagged at him. He needed to know how severe the fracture was.

broken bone… How would she even manage

completely forgotten she hadn’t even bothered to show up for the

*****

the hospital, a bone-deep chill had

waited outside the OR.

a shaky breath and called Tobias. “Grandma collapsed.

voice was pure ice. Tobias, with his paper-thin ego,

wedding’s tomorrow, in case you forgot! And

pull any crap with Alden, you can consider

of stone, a sneer barely contained. “I said, Grandma is in emergency surgery! And you’re still babbling about the goddamn wedding? Dad, she’s not just my grandma. She’s

sink through his self-absorbed haze. Anger had been building inside him all night, and as soon as he

emotions.

grandmother was at the nursing

“I don’t know. She’s still in there. When

got a meeting with another CEO any minute. It’s crucial. I can’t bail. I’ll have Sally head over. I’ll

own father. How could anyone be this heartless? His own mother

business?

Kaia said, her voice ice-cold

contempt.

call and sat there, alone and freezing, the sterile scent

mother’s death, Claire had been the only one to show her true warmth, the only

at me. But not Grandma. They

phone

****

the table,

to his message last

strong? Is

picture, scrolling through her Instagram feed. Only posts from the last three days

was doing, but it was like hitting

blank wall.