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

magical to him—like it had

Cooper and the Yard twins

subconsciously. He felt protective of them at the brink of a

stepfather’ felt like

as his own. She had been worried

important aspect in Anna’s life, but so were

hurt her kids, and instead

in the hospital when he came down with a fever, and he had a

Anna panicked and began

take long before the root cause of Cade’s condition came to light; his medical

was 0.01%, but when it did happen,

seeing the fatality rate of this disease, Anna grew

disbelief as he stared

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

had become unconscious in the hospital room. His eyes then turned to the papers clutched in his hand, and he read the report once more in bewilderment.

him? Do you have any

stepfather. We’re not related by blood,

have buckled under his own weight had Anna

had a likely guess in mind, though it was bold for even either of them to have thought

this had been the past, Cooper and Anna would have been overjoyed

they

later, the

and Cade were indeed

Cooper and Anna’s

this mishap, but what he did know was that Cade was his biological son, which was why he had developed chronic

Cooper felt as if he was transported back to the nightmarish moment when he watched Sophia rot away in his

crumpled up the DNA test results and bent his

and Cade were his

had only just reconciled with them, and now, he was going to have

side, Callum and Anna

were rimmed red as she thought

this was what Jordaine meant when she said she was going to deal with

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