My Ex Husband The Alpha His Brother The Rogue novel Chapter 92

-Laila

A cold sensation presses against my wrist.

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There’s a beeping sound in the distance. It’s hollow, and steady, almost like a heartbeat but it doesn’t sound quite as natural.

My consciousness returns slowly. For a long moment, I can’t figure out where I am.

The air smells sterile…way too clean. Like bleach, metal and disinfectant.

My throat feels dry. I try to swallow… it burns. Terribly.

My eyelids are heavy, like they’ve been glued shut. It’s a struggle to pry them open and after a few agonizing seconds, I finally succeed.

Bright light invades my eyes. It stings terribly.

Everything stings.

I blink until my vision adjusts, and the shapes around me start making sense.

The first thing I notice is the white ceiling. The second… tubes sticking out of me.

It’s unmistakably a hospital.

I’m in a hospital.

The thought barely forms before panic slams into me along with fractured memories.

Liam.

“L..Liam…” My voice cracks on the word,

My throat hurts and my voice comes out as barely a whisper, but someone hears it.

“Laila.”

That voice. It’s familiar… and a little too close.

I turn my head slightly, wincing at the sharp pain that runs down my neck. Cameron sits in a chair beside the

bed.

He looks like he’d just returned from a business meeting. Hair slicked back, clad in a tailored black suit.

His reaches out to take my hand before I can react, his fingers brushing the back of mine.

His touch burns…not in the way the fire did.

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The fire…

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Memories flash through my mind. The crack of collapsing beams, the suffocating smoke, Liam’s small body pressed against me. Marie’s scream.

Then it all goes black.

My eyes widen, terror curling in my heart.

“Easy,” Cameron reassures quietly. “You’re safe now.”

Safe. The word feels wrong.

“What…” My voice breaks. “Where’s… Liam?”

“My son… where’s my baby?!”

Cameron hesitates. Long enough for my heart to drop right to the pit of my stomach.

No…no…no… this can’t be happening. Not my baby boy, not him…

Cameron forces a smile. “He’s alive.”

A sob tears out my throat before I can stop it. Relief floods through me so hard I almost choke on it. “Where is he?”

“In the next room.” Cameron replies, thumb stroking the back of my palm. “He’s well monitored.”

“I want to see him.” I say, already attempting to get up.

“You can’t. Not yet.” Cameron’s tone shifts. It’s still gentle, but edged with something else. “He’s still unconscious. The doctors are doing everything they can.”

Unconscious…

The word lands like a weight over my chest. My heart drops. “How long?”

He averts his eyes, jaws tight. “A few weeks. Maybe more.”

Weeks?!

My eyes dart to the window. The world outside looks bright, like morning. “What day is it?”

“It’s been a month, Lails.”

A month.

A whole fucking month!

I stare at him in disbelief, the weight of his words pressing down on me. My mind can’t seem to make sense of it. “I don’t…I don’t understand. The fire…how did we…”

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“There was an explosion at the height of the flames. I found you near the lake,” Cameron interrupts softly. “Barely breathing. You’d gone into shock. The doctors said if I hadn’t gotten there when I did…”

He trails off, letting the silence complete his words.

“You?” My brows furrow in confusion. “You found me?”

Cameron nods. “Yes.”

I stare at him, trying to remember exactly what happened after making it out the window, but my mind’s foggy. Everything from that night is fractured. I can’t piece it together.

“Marie…” I whisper.

Cameron’s gaze shifts to his feet. “She didn’t make it.”

A sharp pain rips through my chest.

No. No, no…she was right behind me, she…

I tilt my head away, letting the tears spill.

Cameron’s hand tightens over mine. “Lails…”

“Don’t,” I whisper, voice trembling. “Please don’t.”

His fingers freeze but he doesn’t move away. “I know this is hard. But you’re not alone.”

Something in the way he says it stirs an uneasy feeling in the pit of my stomach. He sounds too certain.

Tears blur my eyes but I glance back at him. “Where’s Kael?”

Cameron tenses visibly.

Then his expression hardens, just a little but enough that I notice. He stands and stalks over the window, his back to me.

For a long while, he doesn’t answer. And I’m beginning to think he won’t.

But he finally does. His voice is calm as he speaks, “Kael left.”

My brows furrow in confusion. “What?”

“He left the lake before the fire spread. The investigators are keeping it under wraps but I had my enforcers look into it. They say the fire started in the generator room…but the power was already cut. He was seen leaving the property around that time.”

I blink, unable to process the words. “That’s not possible. He…he wouldn’t…”

Kael had gone back up to the summit before I left. He couldn’t have been at the lake house… could he?

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My mind drifts back to Marie’s words. She’d said she heard someone come in…

Was that… Kael?

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“He did,” Cameron says firmly, turning to face me. “He didn’t even stay to help. And after everything…he hasn’t shown up since. He hasn’t asked about you or Liam. Not once.”

My stomach twists. “You’re lying.”

Suspicion curls within me. Last Cameron and I spoke, it was he who had been headed back to the lake house right behind me.

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