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.

Grace let out a deep sigh looking at her, “Allison, without the help from the Flanagan family, there’s no way we could’ve survived. You’ve got to keep going to school and get married someday, I’m sick, and I don’t want to be a burden to you, I could be gone any day…”

Allison threw herself into Grace’s arms, “Mom, you’ll get better; we’ll find a kidney donor, and I’ll find a way to

live here because of the Flanagan family’s help. Allie.” She called Allison by her nickname, her eyes filled with tears, “I’m sorry for making you suffer like

back tears, Grace held Allison tight, but she couldn’t say any

Nighttime had arrived.

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

smiled,

outside the

moist and red. “Dr.

Dylan felt a pang in his heart,

tears she’d finally stopped started falling again at

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