Anna tried her best to keep herself from falling apart, but she was still shaking all over. Her trembling hands were stained with Cade’s blood, which still felt warm on her skin.

She thought about the time when Cade was kidnapped as a child. The men who had taken him wanted to throw him down to his death right before her eyes.

Anna remembered distinctly the fear that gripped her when she saw Cade’s little body being lifted high above the ground, about to be brought down to his death at any given moment.

She could still picture the scene clearly, as if it had been ingrained into the deepest recesses of her mind. The memory still haunted her to this day.

Just then, a strong pair of arms encircled her, pulling her into a comforting embrace. Cooper held her close and murmured, “It’s okay. He’ll be alright. Nothing’s going to happen to him.”

There was an intense ringing in her ears. Her lips trembled, and she found herself unable to word out whatever it was that she was thinking.

Then, an urgent voice resonated next to her, saying, “We’ve removed the bullet and he’s no longer in danger, but he’s lost a lot of blood. He needs a transfusion immediately, but we’ve received too many patients today, and right now, we’re short on supply for blood type A.”

Cooper answered hurriedly, “That’s my blood type. Let me do the transfusion.”

“Are you related to him? Do you have any contagious diseases?”

“I’m his stepfather. We’re not related by blood, and I have no contagious diseases.”

“Then follow me, please.”

Without a second thought, Cooper hastily traipsed after the nurse.

It didn’t take long for the transfusion to be done, and after Cade woke up, the three of them made their way back to Ronney City.

Cade recovered well enough upon their return. There was color in his cheeks now, and he looked happy, too.

Cooper had given him a blood transfusion.

He beamed at the thought—Cooper’s blood now runs in my veins!

This means that I’m practically related to Cooper by blood.

He couldn’t be happier or more honored about this.

However, he couldn’t help but feel disappointed at the same time. It would be perfect if Cooper were my biological father.

Callum finds out about this, I’m sure he’ll turn green

done something magical to him—like it had brought forth an

as if Cooper and the

felt protective of them at the brink of

his stepfather’ felt like a declaration that was long

equally overjoyed to know that Cooper had accepted her sons as his own. She had been worried all this while that Cooper might dislike them, knowing that the twins had Jordan’s genes

in Anna’s life, but

hurt her kids, and instead saw them as

the hospital when he came down with a fever, and he had a rash over his skin. These were followed by

panicked and began

the root cause of Cade’s condition came to light; his medical report returned with a

probability of this happening was 0.01%, but when it did

fatality rate of this disease, Anna grew faint. She stumbled

disbelief as he stared

increase the risk of the latter developing GvHD. It was the reason why hospitals refused to allow patients to receive blood transfusions from

papers clutched in his hand, and he read the report once more in bewilderment. His

him? Do you

his stepfather. We’re not related by blood, and I have

would have buckled under his own weight had Anna not

in mind, though it was

would have been overjoyed if whatever they’d guessed turned

now, they feared

of hours later, the DNA

Callum and Cade were indeed Cooper’s

Cooper and Anna’s biological

did know was that Cade was his biological son, which was why he had developed chronic GvHD

if he was transported back to the nightmarish moment when he watched Sophia

results and bent his

and Cade were his

had only just reconciled with them, and now, he was going to have to say goodbye to one of

one side, Callum and Anna had

she thought about

when she said she was going to deal

The Novel will be updated daily. Come back and continue reading tomorrow, everyone!

Comments ()

0/255