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Chapter 3

Author: Iris
After the blood draw, I didn't go back to the guest room. I had the driver take me to the garage instead. Over a dozen of the pack's cars gleamed under the lights. An obsidian-black limited edition sat dead center, like a beast that could never be wounded.

I took a photo and showed it to Serena. "I want that one."

Victor slammed the table and stood up. "You just stuffed yourself at my table, and now you're eyeing my car? Is that what your mother taught you?"

"You said fifty thousand was plenty for someone poor." I pointed at the car. "So who is that car sitting there for?"

I had the butler bring the Blackwood family registry. "Put me back in as the eldest daughter and restore every right I'm owed. I won't ask for the car. But if you insist I'm just a donor, then we negotiate the marrow at the price of that car."

Victor's jaw tightened. "Money, fine. Taking you back? Never."

Claire rushed to defend him, saying their father had given her a piano and a penthouse. I slid the photo of the car in front of her. "Then why won't he trade one car to save your life?"

She had no answer.

The call from Moon Crown Medical Center came right then. The doctor said Claire and I were a strong match. She had to begin conditioning before midnight, or she'd miss this full moon cycle and might not survive to the next one.

At that same moment, I got a call from my mother's workplace. She'd collapsed in the kitchen. The tumor was pressing against her heart. A spot had opened at the specialist center, but the deposit was three hundred thousand dollars, and it was only held until midnight.

I set both notifications in front of Victor. "Forget the car. Three hundred thousand dollars, wired to my mother's hospital right now. The moment the money clears, I sign."

He sneered. "Margaret stopped being a Blackwood a long time ago. Whether she lives or dies is none of my concern."

"Then Claire isn't my concern either."

"She's young. Her life is worth more."

When those words landed, Claire's face went whiter than the hospital walls.

I pushed the transplant contract back in front of him. "It's not that you don't have the money. You just think my mother's life isn't worth three hundred thousand. So use your own money and save the daughter you think deserves to live. If Claire dies, it won't be my fault. It'll be because her own father couldn't part with three hundred thousand dollars."
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