Chapter 2 The Child

The world turned black before her eyes as Jasmine was shoved into a car, curling up trembling and hopeless in the corner.

She couldn't donate a kidney; she would die.

And she couldn't die yet.

"Jasmine, how was prison life for the past five years?" Daniel asked, peering at her shrunken figure in the corner, a far cry from the proud woman she once was. He felt a complicated emotion deep within.

Jasmine flinched, perhaps a conditioned reflex from being bullied in prison; she wrapped her arms protectively around her head in fear.

"Have you gone mute?" Daniel asked with disgust while pinching her chin. The fresh,

dark red blood on her forehead stark against her pale face.

"Fine..." Jasmine's voice trembled, filled with as much hatred as despair.

Thanks to Daniel, her prison life had been a living hell.

On the day of her release, another inmate who had been bullying her incessantly finally broke down and revealed the truth-she had been paid by Daniel's men to 'look after' Jasmine during those five years.

Daniel's Adam's apple bobbed as he looked at the wounds on Jasmine's face and then pushed her away in repulsion.

Disgusting.

Jasmine numbly watched the man she had once loved her entire youth. He now failed to stir anything inside her.

She had stopped loving him a long time ago.

...

San Francisco General Hospital.

out of the car

for mercy, she knelt

in prison had taught her the hard

please, I can't donate my kidney. I don't qualify...

Jasmine pleaded relentlessly.

name, she was painfully aware that

had to live an even more wretched existence than they could imagine just

move.

neither Daniel nor the Wilson family would let her off

had reasons

tumult of emotions in his gaze, seemingly taken aback by the sight of the once high-and-mighty

this book for free. Don't miss out on the

people willing to donate a kidney to Serena, right? Evan, I'm begging you... you,

after surgery as a child, her body couldn't withstand the damage

knew that, yet he watched her with chilling indifference. "This is your debt to Serena. If it wasn't for your mom swapping you with my sister, you should have

collapsing weakly onto the ground. "Can't I atone in some

five- year stint in prison wipes clean the slate of your mistakes? Have you forgotten what you did to me? When you betrayed me and slept with

five years ago, nor did she

to protect her forever, Evan, after discovering the truth,

an imposter, and by extension, her fiancé Daniel rightfully

with Daniel in tow, went out to catch Jasmine

all been orchestrated

and rightful heiress,

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