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Chapter 46

Author: TEG
last update publish date: 2026-03-20 11:43:30

The call came at 7:12 AM another unknown number.

Alex stood in the kitchen, spoon in hand, staring at her phone as it buzzed against the counter. She almost let it go to voicemail. Lately, unknown numbers only meant complications.

But ignoring things had stopped working.

She answered.

"Hello?"

Silence for a beat.

Then a woman's voice, quiet and careful.

"Alex?"

She recognized it immediately.

"Eleanor."

A pause.

"Yes."

Alex set the spoon down.

"What do you want?"

Catherine was at the table behin
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    Alex didn’t sleep that night.She sat on the couch with her laptop open, the house quiet, the cursor blinking on an empty page. She had started writing three different times and deleted all of it.Every version sounded wrong.Too emotional. Too careful. Too defensive.She closed her eyes for a second, then started again.This time, she didn’t try to sound like anything.She just wrote.She wrote about Catherine. Not the diagnosis, not the genetics, not the terminology people liked to use.Her daughter.Morning routines. Applesauce and medicine. The purple cup that no other cup could replace. The way Catherine sang while playing like she had her own little world.Then she wrote about the parts no one saw.The decisions. The pressure. The quiet ways companies positioned themselves as solutions before you even understood the problem.She paused.Stared at the screen.Then added one line:My daughter is not a case study. She is not a trial candidate. She is not a story for anyone else to

  • Oops.. I Fell for My Ex Again   Chapter 46

    The call came at 7:12 AM another unknown number.Alex stood in the kitchen, spoon in hand, staring at her phone as it buzzed against the counter. She almost let it go to voicemail. Lately, unknown numbers only meant complications.But ignoring things had stopped working.She answered."Hello?"Silence for a beat.Then a woman's voice, quiet and careful."Alex?"She recognized it immediately."Eleanor."A pause."Yes."Alex set the spoon down."What do you want?"Catherine was at the table behind her, tapping her cup with both hands like a drum."Mama! Juice!""One second, baby."Alex poured the juice without looking away from the window, phone pressed to her ear.Eleanor spoke carefully."They contacted me yesterday."Alex handed Catherine the cup."Who did?""Anthropic."That got her attention.Alex turned slightly, lowering her voice."What did they want?""They offered me a role," Eleanor said. "If Catherine enters the trial."Alex frowned."What kind of role?""Family support. Ove

  • Oops.. I Fell for My Ex Again   Chapter 45

    Alex didn’t sleep much that night.The message from Anthropic BioSolutions replayed in her mind over and over.Phase 2 recruitment has begun.The words carried a weight she couldn’t ignore.Phase 1 meant proof of concept.Phase 2 meant something different.Scale.More patients.More data.Closer to approval.Closer to becoming a treatment that hospitals might offer without secrecy or persuasion.Which meant something else too.Anthropic didn’t need Catherine the way they had six months ago.If they had ten successful patients already, they could move forward without her.And yet…They were still watching.Alex lay awake until dawn, staring at the ceiling while Dominic slept beside her.Eventually she slipped out of bed and walked quietly to Catherine’s room.Her daughter was sprawled across the mattress sideways, Ellie half hanging off the bed.Alex gently adjusted the blanket.Catherine murmured in her sleep.The small rise and fall of her chest felt like the most important rhythm in

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