Chapter 159

Quinlyn didn’t have any particular hobbies; she was just checking to see if Calvin had any signs of surgery.

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Since he was tied up and couldn’t fight back, it made things pretty easy. The camera scanned from his hair all the way down to his feet.

“Go back and scan his chest again,” Jolie instructed.

Quinlyn stayed calm and walked back to get a closer look. To be sure, she even touched it. Sure enough, she found a faint scar near his heart. “There’s a surgery scar.”

The scar was about the size of a bowl and had been stitched up crookedly. Even though Calvin’s skin was soft and he’d used scar cream, making it harder to see, the texture was different when she touched it.

His face was so red that it looked like it might bleed, and he was mumbling, though it was hard to tell what he was protesting.

Quinlyn took a step back, thinking for a moment before, out of habit, she pressed a jackknife to his neck. “I won’t hurt you. I just need to ask a few questions.”

Calvin thought to himself, ‘Look at me. How can I trust you?‘

But Quinlyn ignored his thoughts with the knife still at his neck. She pulled the blanket off and asked, “You’ve been on so many shows, so why is your family still so poor?”

Calvin stared at her for a moment. After holding it in for a bit, he couldn’t help but say, “Can you at least cover me with the blanket first?”

“Oh,” Quinlyn said, and she did as he asked.

With the blanket back over him, Calvin’s mood lightened a bit, and he answered, “It’s because I was really sick when I was a

for my

treatment.” kid. My parents went into debt trying to pay

“What kind of illness?” Quinlyn asked.

“I don’t know. I just remember being in the hospital for a long time, and then one day I slept for a really long time. When I woke up, I was fine,” Calvin explained.

“What about the scar on your chest?” Quinlyn asked.

a scratch when I was playing,” Calvin

his eyes. He seemed sincere, so she figured he wasn’t lying. He genuinely didn’t know anything about it. “Jolie,” Quinlyn said, sitting by the bed and speaking into her earpiece. “Can an adult and

possible, but there might be exceptions. The safest

to Calvin and said, “I found the connection between you and

“I want to, but how am I

quick motion, she cut the ropes tying him

the wardrobe to grab some clothes. But halfway through, the door opened

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was Calvin, naked from the waist down, with clothes scattered on the floor.

shouted, panicking as he tried

things over with Quinlyn, he

and Laura didn’t dare follow them. Right now, Quinlyn was

car headed back to Westwood University, where they had all the right equipment.

too long ago, within the last few years,” the doctor said, proving their

A heart transplant shouldn’t work, right?” one of

“Nothing is ever absolute.

With something that strange happening, who’s to say a

agreeing it made sense. But while they were caught up in the medical wonder

They put a dead person’s

save their child, they went ahead with the transplant

people would kill innocent donors just to save their kids.

took over the case. Before he left, he handed Calvin off to

deleted the computer files, there were still paper records. A quick

out

summer, the sun shining bright and the hallway feeling hot, but

telling me I stole someone else’s heart…

stened.

said, watching him closely, her voice calm. “You’re smart. You must know something’s not right with

the word “not right” instead

silent, lost in thought. Everyone liked getting praised, including

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