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.

finds out about this, I’m sure he’ll

to him—like it had brought forth an incandescent glow from within

seemed as if Cooper and the Yard twins had

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

point, the line ‘I’m his stepfather’

as his own. She had been worried all this while

might be an important aspect in Anna’s life, but

Cooper wouldn’t hurt her kids, and instead saw them

with a fever, and he had a rash

and began to

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

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

disease, Anna

in utter disbelief as he

but there was medical evidence to suggest that blood relation between the donor 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

clutched in his hand, and he read the report once

related to him? Do you have

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

sway, and he would have buckled under his own

mirrored that of Cooper’s. The both of them had a likely guess in mind, though it was bold for even either of them to

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

they feared

hours later, the DNA test results

Callum and

fact, they were Cooper and Anna’s

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

back to the nightmarish moment

and bent his head, letting the tears roll down his

were his biological

them, and now, he was going to have to

Callum and Anna had

red as she thought

she was

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