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

she knelt

prison had taught her the hard lesson of

donate my kidney. I don't qualify... I'll make amends, I'll do

Jasmine pleaded relentlessly.

name, she was painfully aware that Daniel and the Wilsons could squash her as easily as

her life to be miserable. Sadly, she had to live an even more wretched existence than

move.

was crystal clear to Jasmine that neither Daniel nor the Wilson family would let her off

had to survive... she had reasons

was a tumult of emotions in his gaze, seemingly taken aback by

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must be a line of people willing to donate a kidney to Serena, right? Evan,

heart condition, and even after surgery as a child, her body couldn't

he watched her with chilling indifference. "This is your debt to Serena. If it

long time, eventually collapsing weakly onto the ground. "Can't I atone in some

that chance?" Daniel sneered. "Jasmine, do you think a 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 that man? Did you ever consider you'd end up like

years ago, nor did she have the

forever, Evan, after discovering

Evan's eyes, Jasmine was an imposter, and by extension,

tow, went out to catch Jasmine in the

had all been orchestrated by Serena and

victim and rightful

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