Yates advised, "Try them one by one if you must, but it'll take forever. That's not a real solution. The best thing to do is reach out to every hospital you can see if there's a match somewhere."

"I'll go talk to Jessy about it," Vince replied.

He knocked on Jessica's door, but there was no answer, even after a long pause.

With no other choice, he opened the door and stepped inside.

Jessica was still lying in bed.

Vince hurried to her side, calling, "Jessy, Jessy..."

She didn't respond at all.

"Jessy, wake up. Come on, Jessy."

Finally, Jessica's eyes fluttered open, and the first thing she felt was a wave of

pain in her abdomen that made it hard to breathe.

"Vince... it hurts..."

Her voice was little more than a whisper, her brows knit tightly in pain.

her back.

"They're in my bag."

pour her a glass of water, fished the pills out of her purse,

it could be excruciating when it

diagnosis. Thankfully, the cancer hadn't spread any further; in fact, there were signs it might even be shrinking. Otherwise, by now she'd

doing relatively well

last night—she'd gotten so upset, and the stress had set

taking you

Mom and

worried about their parents finding out. She hated the idea of them getting hurt by

to visit Grandpa

bone marrow wasn't a match for hers-if

The meds help a little. Let me rest for

Jessica's phone buzzed.

It was Carlisle calling.

to share, and he also wanted to check in since she hadn't shown up at the movie premiere last night. He'd tried to get in touch, but he'd been swamped and it

hand me my

always

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