My Dreamy Old Husband

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.

I’m sure he’ll turn

as if Cooper’s blood had done something magical to him—like it

seemed as if Cooper and the

to be his own, albeit subconsciously. He felt protective of them at the brink of a crisis, just as

line ‘I’m his stepfather’ felt like a declaration that

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

important aspect in Anna’s life, but so were her

ease. Cooper wouldn’t hurt her kids, and

he had a rash over his skin. These were followed by symptoms of gastrointestinal inflammation two days later, and when the medical report came back, it showed that Cade’s total blood count was

Anna panicked and

cause of Cade’s condition came to light; his

of this happening was 0.01%, but when it did happen, the fatality rate was

seeing the fatality rate of this disease, Anna grew faint. She

as he stared

could increase the risk of the latter developing GvHD. It was the reason why hospitals refused to allow

His eyes then turned to the papers clutched in his hand, and he read the report once more in bewilderment. His mind was completely blank, save for the snippet

to him? Do

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

buckled under his own weight had Anna not reached out to

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

and Anna would have been overjoyed if whatever they’d guessed turned out to

they feared

of hours later, the DNA test results

out that Callum and Cade

fact, they were Cooper

behind this mishap, but what he did know was that Cade was his biological

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

DNA test results and bent his head, letting the

his biological

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

one side, Callum and Anna had

thought seized Anna; her eyes were rimmed red as she thought

said she was going to deal with