Chapter 425

"Push, Mrs. Linwood, push! I can see the baby's head!"

The woman lying on the delivery table gritted her teeth and pushed, following the doctor's instructions.

A moment later, the sharp cry of a newborn filled the room-it was over. The baby had arrived.

"It's a girl! Congratulations, Mrs. Linwood. You have a beautiful daughter," the nurse announced, beaming.

The woman on the bed was utterly exhausted. Her blonde hair clung to her pale, sweat-soaked cheeks, but she barely seemed to notice her own weakness.

"Let me see her. Please, bring my baby over," she managed breathlessly, her voice trembling with urgency.

The doctor and nurses worked quickly, cleaning the baby and wrapping her in a soft, pastel blanket before placing her gently in her mother's arms.

As she gazed at her daughter's tiny, rosy face, a look of pure contentment spread across her features. "She's mine? She's really my daughter? Oh, thank goodness... You're the little heiress of the Linwood family now, you know that?"

Linwood family? Heiress?

Claire's consciousness snapped awake at that moment, those words echoing in her mind.

she opened her eyes, and the first thing she saw was Adah's face—closer and younger than she remembered. Even disheveled, Adah was beautiful, barely looking older than her mid-twenties, much

hadn't she died? How could she possibly be

Adah look so

on the

harsh scent of antiseptic hung in the air, nurses moved briskly through her blurred vision,

It was real.

been reborn-right at the very moment of her own

blankly at Adah, her thoughts a tangled

with effort and leaned close, pressing a gentle kiss to her newborn daughter's

shock of it made Claire's

Adah had kissed her?

in her past life, and never once had she dared dream of such love from her mother. She hadn't even hoped for a hug, much less a

born into Adah's hope and longing. On the

Adah had carried her, and at

eroded

swirled through Claire's mind. By the time she came back

nurse's arms, with Adah right

saw Nathan-the man she'd come to

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