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.

about this, I’m

blood had done something magical to him—like it

as if Cooper and the Yard twins

protective of them at the brink of a crisis, just as

to the point, the line ‘I’m his stepfather’ felt like a declaration that was

had accepted her sons as his own. She had been worried all this

an important aspect in Anna’s life, but

mind was at ease. Cooper wouldn’t hurt her kids, and instead saw them as

he had a rash over his skin. These were followed by symptoms of gastrointestinal inflammation two days later, and when the medical

Anna panicked and began to

to light; his medical report returned with a diagnosis for Graft versus Host Disease,

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

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

disbelief as he stared at words ‘Graft

donor and the recipient could increase the

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

him? Do you have

by blood, and I have no contagious

sway, and he would have buckled under his own

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

past, Cooper and Anna would have been

now, they

couple of hours later, the

Callum and

fact, they were Cooper

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

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

results and bent his head, letting the tears roll

were his biological sons all

with them, and now, he was

one side, Callum and Anna had tears spilling

a sudden thought seized Anna; her eyes were rimmed red as she thought about Dana’s text message, and her mind began

was what Jordaine meant when she said she was going to

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