Alpha Your Warrior Ex-Wife is Back (by Aurora Starling) novel Chapter 74

Chapter 74

Gideon’s POV

I sat in the hospital garden in silence as I held onto the file like it was an unwanted burden. I kept looking at Daphne’s name in the file like it was written with the poison. It felt like Daphne herself was mocking me for getting played by her.

I glared at the page as I felt my vision getting blurry and pressed my lips in a straight line with fury. Claire was full of courage, warmth and light, her presence was erased just by a pen, The birth mother’s name rewritten, the truth got buried under these mere pieces of paper.

My chest hurts as if someone has stabbed me. I remember that night clearly, it was chaos. I remembered how Claire wanted to hold her son after Daphne took Leo away from her, the hopeless look of Claire still haunts me. And yet, Daphne had taken him. Not forcefully but with something far more dangerous, Influence, Deception.

I remembered it too clearly now. How easily Daphne had brought Leo to me. I was not able to see how fake Daphne’s innocence was, I now realized why she wanted to take care of Leo, it was not out of love but because of greed.

Daphne had slipped in through the cracks of my despair, presenting the child as hers. Maybe it wasn’t just Leo who she was targeting. Maybe… she had done something to Claire.

Thinking about it made me more furious.

I was so deep in it, spiraling in fury and guilt, that I almost didn’t notice the hesitant footsteps approaching from behind. Careful yet soft. I looked behind me sharply and got ready to attack in case

it was an enemy.

It was a nurse. Younger than the others, with wide eyes that flickered nervously toward the folder in my grip. She clenched her hands into fist as she slowly walked towards me like her each step was heavy.

“Alpha, my name is Emily.” She spoke to me softly yet steadily I was able to hear her clearly. “I… I was here the night of the birth.”

My eyes narrowed, “Then you must have known what actually happened.”

She looked at the ground in shame and guilt. “I know enough. Enough that I can’t stay silent anymore. I’ve kept this inside for too long.”

“Speak.” The single word was enough command.

She looked around to make sure no one was listening, the other staff were watching from afar so they were not able to hear anything. She took a deep breath and started speaking “Miss Daphne tried

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to give me money. A bribe. She wanted me to help her hurt Claire.”

Her words were like a cold splash of water. I held onto the file a bit more tightly, I was not able to believe what I heard “what did you say?”

Emily spoke with a shaky voice, the way she spoke guiltily, I knew every word she said was true. “She said if I… if I slipped something into Claire’s drink, or into the medicine, she would make sure I was rewarded. She wanted Claire to die. Not with the child. She wanted to take the child for herself.”

I felt my breath hitched, unable to breathe. The walls of the hospital seemed to shrink around me.

Emily quickly spoke before I misunderstood her. “I refused. I didn’t harm her, I swear. Instead I

if stayed away from Miss Daphne as much as I could. I thought–if I stayed away from Claire’s room, I refused, I’d be safe.”

She stayed quiet for a moment and sighed “But Daphne found another way. She reassigned me to another patient, made sure I wasn’t the one tending Claire during the birth. She silenced me with threats. I was young, terrified. I kept quiet.”

Her voice cracked. “I’ve carried that guilt for years. Watching Claire’s file erased, watching Daphne raise the boy, knowing the truth was buried–I couldn’t say a word. Until now.”