Chapter 19

Life slipped by quietly over the next two days. Vanessa didn't bother going to school-on the surface, she looked like she was just aimlessly wandering the streets of Rosehill, but in reality, she was trying to pick up any bits of news. Just like he said he would, Leander publicly announced their engagement. Overnight, everyone in town was talking about it. The famously aloof man suddenly getting engaged? People were dying to know who the lucky, seemingly high-society girl was. If that counted as good news, then what she heard next hit like a punch to the gut-Fiona, that woman, somehow found a kidney match and had already undergone a successful transplant just two days ago. Once she's recovered, it'll be wedding bells with Victor. Victor and Fiona-just hearing their names made Vanessa's chest ache. The kind of pain that crept under her skin and made her whole body tremble. She couldn't help but remember the glory days of the Livingston family... and how her father had looked so broken i