All Chapters of After My Last Breath: Chapter 341 - Chapter 348

Once the Gordon brothers were finally close enough, Hannah nervously reached out to them, as if to meet them halfway.But without sparing her a single glance, they walked right past her.Wait. What?She was so confused for a whole damn minute that she thought it had all been in her head.But then she heard it.The loud sound of the double doors opening.Another collective gasp rippled through the ballroom.Hannah spun around on her heels, and what she saw made her freeze completely.What the—?In front of her, the double doors were slowly opening, revealing a woman who looked so much like the woman Hannah had once known.But how was that possible?Wasn’t she dead?It had been all over the news. Hannah had even read one of the articles, despite reading newspapers being the last thing she ever wanted to do.But her eyes weren’t deceiving her.It was actually her.Elara. In the flesh. Looking as though she had just stepped straight out of heaven.But that wasn’t what bothered her at the

“Why should we believe a word from a thief?” Elara finally spoke, slowly moving closer to where Hannah stood and her mother knelt.“Because that’s the truth!” Hannah’s mother hissed, glaring up at Elara. “And you need to stop coveting things that belong to your sister, Elara. There’s a limit to everything.”“I’m coveting what belongs to her?” Elara asked, a soft smile curling across her lips. She took another step closer. “Are you sure it’s not the other way around?”Hannah’s mother fell silent, unsure how to counter that.She could, of course, deny Elara’s claim. But there was something about the way Elara was looking at her, as though she knew the whole truth, that frightened her.Because if someone did know the truth, then everything they had so meticulously planned would crumble in an instant.No. She wouldn’t let that happen. Her daughter deserved the best there was. There was no way in hell she would let Elara ruin it for her.“That’s enough, Elara!” She immediately stood up and

Those words gave Hannah and her mother some hope. Amber Gordon was right. The Graham family had raised Elara for so many years. Surely, they wouldn’t look down on them for that fact alone, would they?Hannah looked at her mother, nodded, and once again nudged her forward.“Well, you don’t have to,” the older woman started to say. “But I understand how heavy it would weigh on you if you didn’t do it. So, we won’t deny whatever you have planned. But just so you know, it was my family’s good fortune that Elara lived with us. We loved her very dearly.”The change in their tune was as laughable as it was pathetic.But Amber didn’t laugh. She simply clapped her hands, and right on cue, the doors opened once again.A group of police officers entered and stood beside the Gordons.“Officer,” Amber said, pointing at Hannah’s mom with her chin. “This is the woman who stole my child over twenty years ago. You can take her into custody now. Let the law reward her with the punishment she deserves.”

[Three month later]After the banquet, Hannah, her mother, and Beatrice were arrested and charged for their respective crimes.The court eventually handed down their sentences. Hannah was sentenced to seven years in prison for impersonating Elara and causing billions of dollars in damage to the Gordon family’s assets. Her mother was sentenced to life imprisonment for kidnapping Elara as a child and her involvement in the decades-long scheme that followed. Beatrice received multiple life sentences without the possibility of parole for kidnapping and trafficking children, falsifying records, and conducting illegal human experiments on vulnerable victims. She would spend the rest of her life behind bars, with no chance of ever walking free again.Damon, well, he was an entirely different story. He was still being treated at the psychiatric facility, but a few weeks ago, news broke that he had gotten into a violent fight with one of the guards over a photograph he always carried with him.