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.

she even

completely forgotten she hadn’t even bothered

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hospital, a bone-deep chill had settled

waited outside the OR.

and called

his paper-thin ego, bristled on

tomorrow, in case you forgot! And who

Alden, you

sneer barely contained. “I said, Grandma is in emergency surgery! And you’re still babbling about

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

emotions.

was at the nursing

gasped, “I don’t know. She’s still in there. When are you getting

watch. “Look, I’ve got a meeting with another CEO any minute. It’s crucial.

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

business?

bother,” Kaia said, her

contempt.

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

death, Claire had been the only one to show her true warmth, the only one who’d made her

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

unlocked her phone and

****

Lucien stared blankly at the dinner party guests mingling around the table, their glasses clinking as they chatted. His mind was

hadn’t replied to his message

I come on too strong? Is

Instagram feed. Only posts from the last three days were

to know what she was doing, but it was like hitting

blank wall.