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.

even manage to

forgotten she hadn’t even bothered to

*****

the hospital, a bone-deep chill had settled into Kaia

waited outside the OR.

called Tobias. “Grandma collapsed. Get to the

with his paper-thin

where the hell are you? The wedding’s tomorrow, in case you forgot!

crap with Alden, you can consider

were like chips 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 your

words to sink through his self-absorbed haze. Anger had been building inside him all night, and as soon as he picked up the call, he just exploded

emotions.

the nursing home, wasn’t she? What

“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

How could anyone be this heartless? His own mother was fighting for her life on that

business?

Kaia said, her voice

contempt.

there, alone and freezing, the sterile scent of

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

throw at me. But not Grandma. They don’t get to

her phone and dialed

****

dinner party guests mingling around the table, their glasses

to

too strong?

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

to know what she was doing, but

blank wall.