LOGINShare
Chapter Twenty Two
publish date:
2026-10-31 15:58:30
Latest chapter
Too Late: My Ex Husband is Back Epilogue
FayreTwo years later, on the first warm morning of May, the Phoebe Heart Wing opened its doors beneath a sky so blue that it looked painted.A crowd filled the courtyard of the old gray hospital, with hundreds of people in their best clothes, doctors in white coats beside politicians in dark suits, nurses clutching paper cups of lemonade, and parents holding the hands of children who had once been patients. A long red ribbon stretched across the glass entrance, and a small girl stood in front of it in a yellow dress, holding a pair of enormous silver scissors with both fists.Odette was eight years old now, and she was so healthy that it hurt to look at her. Her dark hair had grown past her shoulders, she had lost two front teeth, and she was in the middle of a heated argument with the photographer about which side of her face was her good one. Behind her, one hand resting lightly on her shoulder, stood a slender woman in a plain blue dress.Celia had come home to us eleven days afte
Too Late: My Ex Husband is Back Chapter Thirty Nine
Fayre"Explain it to me," I said, "and do not leave out a single word."Sanyi set the syringe down on the steel tray with a hand that would not stay still. Behind him, the paramedics lifted Ria's body onto a stretcher and drew a gray sheet up to her chin, and the sound of the canvas straps tightening seemed to fill the entire cave. Mitchell slept on a cot in the corner with a blood pressure cuff on his arm, and Odette's monitor beeped its small, faithful rhythm beside him."I took tissue from Phoebe," Sanyi said. "A vial of heart cells and a vial of blood, drawn from her body in the hours before dawn, while you and Lord Vance were signing the transfer papers upstairs."The words struck me one at a time, each heavier than the last. "You took a piece of my child without asking me.""I did, and I have not stopped regretting it for three years." He lifted his eyes, and they were red-rimmed and wet. "During her final collapse, I noticed that her heart cells resisted the enzyme starvation l
Too Late: My Ex Husband is Back Chapter Thirty Eight
FayreThe vault door sealed behind me with a sound like a coffin lid dropping into place.I spun toward it, and my fists struck cold steel before I understood that Bastien and the others were on the wrong side of it. The room ahead was long and brilliant, a white laboratory humming with freezers and centrifuges and rows of monitors, and at the far end stood a polished desk where Lucan Rourke sat with his hands folded, his cardigan neat, his silver hair gleaming under the clinical light."Do sit, my dear," he said. "I find that no one makes sound decisions while standing.""Where is Odette?""Quite safe, though I suspect not for much longer." He gestured at a wall of screens. On the largest, a camera showed a tunnel where a man in a bloodied shirt pounded along the stone with a small bundle in his arms. "Your former husband is a stubborn creature. He may even succeed in carrying her out, but he will not reach a hospital in time, and the marrow she needs is here with me."A frosted meta
Too Late: My Ex Husband is Back Chapter Thirty Seven
MatteoWe came to the island at ten, from the seaside, in a rubber skiff that smelled of petrol and salt, because Bastien had warned us that Rourke's radar covered every approach by air.The cliff rose above us in a wall of black stone streaked with white guano. Waves slammed against its base, and the spray fell on our faces like needles. Fayre sat in the bow with her hair whipped across her cheeks and her surgical bag clutched against her knees, her eyes fixed on the yellow lighthouse at the island's crown. She had refused to wear a bulletproof vest until Mitchell took off his own and wrapped it around her shoulders without a word, and she had permitted it, which told me how little time we had left."The sea cave is two hundred meters ahead," Bastien said through the earpiece. "Noor found the old smuggling route in the harbor archives. It leads to a service tunnel that connects to the clinic's lower levels.""Then we go in quietly," I said. "We take the child, the marrow, and anyone
Too Late: My Ex Husband is Back Chapter Thirty Six
FayreI found out about Odette at ten minutes past five, when a nurse's scream tore through the quiet of the institute and I ran barefoot down the stairs with my pager still blinking in my hand.By the time I reached the isolation corridor, the guards had sealed every exit. Dr. Okonkwo knelt beside the injured nurse, pressing gauze to her temple, and Mitchell sat slumped against the wall with a cream-colored card clenched in his fist. His face was the color of old paper. He did not look up when I stopped in front of him, and he did not speak, and in that silence, I read the entire catastrophe."They took her," I said."Rourke took her." His voice was a ruin. "He took my marrow too, Fayre. He took everything I gave."I should have screamed at him. Instead, I pressed my palms against my eyes until colored spots bloomed behind the lids, and I forced my breathing into the slow cadence that Dr. Lindqvist had taught me three years earlier. When I lowered my hands, I had stopped being a moth
Too Late: My Ex Husband is Back Chapter Thirty Five
MitchellThe marrow harvest ended at half past one in the morning, and I woke from the anesthesia convinced that someone had driven a steel rod through both of my hips.A nurse with tired eyes told me the pain was normal and that I should remain in the recovery bay until sunrise. She explained that the sealed carrier holding what they had taken from me would be kept in the pediatric isolation unit, warmed slowly, and infused into Odette at six o'clock, after the child's final round of conditioning. If her small body accepted it, the first fragile threads of recovery would begin by midday.I thanked her, and then I lay in the dark listening to the monitors, thinking about how strange it was that I had given pieces of myself to a daughter I had never met, when I had given the first one only my absence.Noor, the analyst from Matteo's security team, appeared at the foot of my bed a little before two. She held a thick envelope against her chest, and she watched me with an expression I cou
You May Also Like
Sweet Dreams
Josie frank1.1M viewsThe CEO's Ex-Wife Is A Famous Doctor
LiLhyz4.1M viewsDivorced My Cheating Husband, Married A Billionaire
LiLhyz876.4K viewsEx-Husband's Regret
Evelyn M.M4.9M viewsUnveiling the Billionaire Heiress
Author Bhelle43 viewsOnce a Doormat, Now Married to a Tycoon
Kaima🥀26 viewsMarried to the Man I came to Destroy
C.O Winter20 viewsGABRIEL VINCENT — My Protector Senator
Mitha Souza28 views
