Fortunately, we got there just in time. Mollie only had a small cut on the side of her waist, nothing serious.
Tristan stuck around, tending to her wound personally.
The results came back after three days.
Antonio was shell–shocked, staring at the test results and the paternity report in his hand.
The twin daughters he’d doted on? They weren’t even his own.
Both he and Caroline were stricken with HIV.
He approached me, his face a mess of regret and desperation. “Grace. I messed up. I don’t deserve forgiveness, but we can’t just write off” Carson. I’ve talked to the doctors. If his condition spirals, he might really need a kidney.
“I was a jerk when I made you leave with nothing. I’ll give you 16. thousand dollars. Just let me have Mollie back!
“If anything goes wrong on the operating table, I’ll own it!”
“What can you own? Mollie has been fragile since birth. She can’t handle giving up a kidney!”
I couldn’t believe Antonio had the audacity to ask Mollie to donate a kidney to Carson at this point instead of trying to find out why Carson got sick!
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Actually, there was no need to look into it. It was obvious that Caroline was behind this.
But Antonio could neither face the music nor admit his own mistakes.
The man who once stood tall, was now too scared to meet my gaze. “If you think the money is not enough, I can come up with more! Kidney transplants are a piece of cake with today’s medical tech. What’s the fuss?”
I had to give it to Antonio. His brazenness was something else.
If it was a piece of cake, why was he so dead set on Mollie being the one to give up her kidney?
Was it because it’d be a freebie from his own daughter?
Or was this his way of getting back at Mollie for not sticking around him back then?
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