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.

said I got a scratch when

He seemed sincere, so she figured he wasn’t lying. He genuinely didn’t know anything about it. “Jolie,” Quinlyn said, sitting

possible, but there might be exceptions. The safest option

replied. She turned to Calvin and said, “I found the connection between you and Elsa. It might help you. Do you want to come

how am I supposed to go with

him, and with a quick motion, she cut

he rushed to the wardrobe to grab some clothes. But halfway through,

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with clothes scattered on the floor. Then he noticed Quinlyn playing with a folding knife. He raised

what you think. Let me explain,” Calvin shouted,

anymore. After talking things over with Quinlyn, he used

them. Right now, Quinlyn

Westwood University, where they had all the right equipment. Calvin was rushed in for tests, and five

definitely had heart surgery, and it was a major transplant–done not too long ago, within the last few years,” the doctor

systems. A heart transplant shouldn’t work,

“Nothing is ever absolute. Fathers and

have memories from the donor. With something that strange happening, who’s

sense. But while they were caught up in the medical

insane. They put a dead person’s heart into him without

though Brent and Laura did it to save their child, they went ahead with the transplant without getting permission from the living donor, violating

save their kids. This was exactly

so he took over the case. Before he left, he handed Calvin off to Quinlyn. “It’s up

hospital deleted the computer files,

came out of the exam room,

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

me I stole someone else’s

stened.

Quinlyn said, watching him closely, her voice calm. “You’re smart.

used the word “not right” instead of “unusual” or

thought. Everyone liked getting praised, including

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