Chapter 3

Dad swayed, nearly losing his balance. “How can this be? Wasn’t she recovering well before?”

“Has the patient experienced any unusual symptoms recently?”

“Well, our daughter is getting married, so my wife has been busy running around. Maybe she’s just tired. Recently, she even pulled two all-nighters to alter the wedding dress for our daughter.”

“Foolish! Is she trying to die? Her body just recovered; how could it withstand such strain?”

“Then, Doctor, what do we do now? Please, you have to save my mother.”

Serena’s eyes brimmed with tears as she looked at the doctor.

The doctor’s expression turned grim. “We need to prepare for a second bone marrow transplant.”

“Then quickly call Chloe Kingston to come here!”

Immediately, they all remembered me again, frantically calling my phone.

“Hello, the number you have dialed is temporarily unavailable…”

Listening to the automated voice on the phone, their faces all darkened.

Serena cried, “Sister must still be mad at me. I’ll go beg her. As long as she’s willing to save Mom, I’ll leave Ryan, I’ll leave the Kingston family.”

“That b*tch, Chloe Kingston! Mom’s critically ill, and she still won’t answer the phone! She’s truly a malicious b*tch!”

I watched Liam. My brother, with whom I shared blood, thought of me as a b*tch.

Dad, Robert, sneered. “She thinks she’s got us cornered, waiting for us to beg her.”

“I don’t want her bone marrow anymore, that unfilial daughter. Since she doesn’t care if I live or die, I’ll pretend I never had a daughter like her.”

Mom, upon waking from her coma, also joined in, expressing her disgust and condemning me.

Liam angrily punched the wall.

“I’ll go find her.”