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.

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 younger than Claire's

How could she

did Adah look so

on the edge of

air, nurses moved briskly through her blurred vision, and the steady beeping of

It was real.

at the very moment of her

Adah, her

with effort and leaned close, pressing a gentle

it made

Adah had kissed her?

with the Linwood family in her past life, and never once had she dared dream of such

again, Claire finally realized she had been born into Adah's hope and longing. On the day of her birth, Adah had kissed her her long-awaited

carried her, and at least once, she

lost, time had eroded

swirled through Claire's mind. By the time she came back to herself, she was already being carried

arms, with

saw Nathan-the man she'd come

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