My Great Escape Led Me to You (Emily Blair) novel Chapter 951

She eyed Isabella Austin’s adoptive mother’s belly—rounded and heavy, just about as far along as her own—and a secret, dangerous idea began to take root.

Adelaide George discreetly jotted down the names of Isabella Austin’s adoptive parents, then left to find work at a local diner, scraping together every penny she could.

When her due date approached, she spent all her savings to rent a private hospital room right next to Isabella Austin’s adoptive mother. The cost per night left her stunned, but she didn’t hesitate. She stayed there for several days, waiting, until, as fate would have it, they both went into labor on the same day.

And, in another twist of coincidence, they both gave birth to baby girls.

After delivering her child, Adelaide didn’t leave right away. She continued to stay in the hospital, waiting for the right moment. Then, when no one was looking, she switched her baby with the one born to Isabella Austin’s adoptive mother.

Hospital security was lax at the time; not a single nurse or orderly noticed that the babies from the two adjacent rooms had been exchanged.

Almost as if it was destiny, the two newborn girls looked strikingly alike—so much so that even their own parents didn’t realize anything was amiss.

Once she’d made the switch, Adelaide didn’t bother recovering fully; she checked herself out of the hospital in a hurry, anxious to get away.

She disappeared for a while, dragging along the baby who wasn’t hers, ducking in and out of cheap motels, burning through her last dollars. Most days, she and the little one went hungry.

Then fate intervened again, and she crossed paths with Emma George, who had been sent away from the family by Tristan years earlier.

Their first encounter was in a narrow alleyway, where Emma found Adelaide huddled by a storm drain, clutching the baby, looking utterly defeated.

Moved by pity, Emma brought them home.

Though she’d been sent away as a child, Emma had never changed her last name; she was still a George.

When they introduced themselves, both were shocked to discover they were sisters by blood.

When Emma realized this was her own sister Emily’s child—her biological niece—and heard Adelaide’s story of being abandoned by a wealthy businessman, a wave of responsibility washed over her. She decided to take them in.

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