Chapter 43

Allison’s been on the receiving end of Penelope’s fists since she was a tyke.

She’s always been a top student, but Penelope would tear her high–scoring test papers into shreds every single time.

There was even this one time Grace sewed Allison a pink skirt, and Penelope chucked it into the trash at first sight, snarling, “Only trash should wear

clothes from the garbage”

Allison was trembling all over, her rage towards Penelope and her surrender to fate made it hard for her to breathe.

got to keep going to school and get married someday, I’m sick, and I don’t want to be a

“Mom, you’ll get better; we’ll find a kidney donor, and I’ll find a way to

girl, do you know how much that costs? We don’t have that kind of money. We can only live here because of the Flanagan family’s help. Allie.” She called Allison by her nickname, her eyes

Grace held Allison tight, but she couldn’t say any more.

Nighttime had arrived.

coat passed by the nurse’s station, and a blushing nurse stopped him, “Dr. Dylan,

Dylan smiled,

saw Allison sitting forlornly on a chair outside the patient’s

eyes moist and red. “Dr.

a pang in his

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