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Chapter 4

Author: Iris
With forty minutes left until midnight, Victor pushed Claire forward until she stood in front of me. She'd just finished her examination and could barely stand.

"She's your sister," he told Claire. "Go beg her to take less. If she chooses money over your life, then remember who really did this to you."

Claire was silent for a long time. Then she looked at Victor, her voice trembling. "She's willing to sell her bone marrow to save her own mother. You have the money. Why won't you pay?"

Victor snapped at her to shut up, saying an older sister saving her younger sister should be free.

But Claire took a step away from the conditioning ward. "Then don't treat me. If you can't part with three hundred thousand dollars, then watch me die. When people ask, don't tell them my sister refused to save me. Tell them your daughter mattered less than your money."

Serena stood beside her. "This has to come out of your account. You always say Claire is the one you love most. Today, let her see whether your love is worth three hundred thousand."

Victor transferred a hundred thousand first, trying to delay the rest until after the transplant succeeded. I placed my phone face-down on the table. "My mother can't wait until the transplant is over. And I don't trust a man who vanished for seventeen years to pay the balance. Full amount, or I don't sign."

He asked what would stop me from taking the money and running.

I laughed. "You had seventeen years to learn what kind of person I am. You chose not to know me. Now your only options are to trust the daughter you abandoned, or watch the daughter you raised die."

When the last transfer came through, the screen showed three hundred thousand dollars. I didn't call him Dad, and I didn't forgive him.

The Silver Isolation Contract was spread out in front of me: once Claire completed conditioning, backing out would be as good as killing her. Breach of contract would mean returning the full payment plus one million dollars in damages.

I had just picked up the pen when my mother called. "Send the money back," she said. "I'd rather die than use money Victor paid for with the life of his other daughter."

"This isn't charity. I earned it by selling my bone marrow."

"Then I definitely can't take it. If you sign that contract, I'm leaving the hospital right now. Erin, am I still your mother or not?"

In the ward, Claire waited for conditioning to begin. On the phone, my mother waited for me to return the money. I set the pen to the signature line.
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