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

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

the Yard twins had

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

point, the line ‘I’m his stepfather’

She had been worried all

in Anna’s life, but so were

Cooper wouldn’t hurt her kids, and instead

have foreseen what happened next. A week after the transfusion, Cade began to experience inexplicable symptoms. He’d been resting in the hospital when he came down with a fever, and he had

this, Anna panicked and

his medical report returned with a diagnosis for Graft

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

fatality rate of this disease, Anna grew faint. She

as he stared at words ‘Graft versus

to suggest that blood relation between the donor and the recipient could increase the risk of the latter developing

hand, and he read

him? Do you have any

related by blood, and

buckled under his own weight had Anna not reached out

expression mirrored that of Cooper’s. The both of them had a likely guess in mind, though it

have been overjoyed if whatever they’d guessed

now, they feared

the DNA

that Callum and Cade were indeed Cooper’s biological

fact, they were Cooper and Anna’s

was that Cade

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

up the DNA test results and bent his head, letting the tears roll down his

and Cade were his biological

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

and Anna had tears spilling down

her eyes were rimmed red as she thought about Dana’s text message, and her mind began

she was going to deal with

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