[Whatever we were before, now I am me, and you are you. If you have the energy to hire actors to fool me, you should use it to move out of my house!]
He was very thoughtful. He’d already rented me a fully furnished apartment in the same complex. He’d even paid the first month’s rent. To avoid suspicion, he’d signed a one–year lease with the landlord.
[Consider us even. You don’t owe me for the rent]
I glanced at the blurred, bloody image on the ultrasound printout and replied calmly.
[Okay. Thank you.]
That rent money would be the last responsibility he ever took for this child.
I stayed in the hospital for three days. He never contacted me again.
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I stayed in the hospital for three days. He never contacted me again.
But his social media was a constant stream of flashing lights and flowing alcohol. It was as if he was trying to reclaim all the wild youth he’d missed out on because of me.
I knew he was posting it for me to see. I had another, burner account that followed him, and none of those posts were visible there.
So I played my part. I “liked” every video.
When I was checking out, I saw him and a doctor pushing a gurney down the hallway at a run. The moment he saw me, he quickly looked away, pretending I wasn’t there.
But I heard the ER doctor shouting orders. “Prep OR 1! We need O–negative blood, stat! Patient has a ruptured luteal cyst, massive
hemorrhage!”
“What? We’re out of stock?”
The doctor hung up and quickly relayed the situation to Finn.
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The man who had just ignored me stopped dead in his tracks and ran back towards me.
“Elvira Hayes! If you donate blood for Lara, I’ll overlook you stalking me!”
1 stared at him, dumbfounded. “I’m not stalking you…”
“Enough! Save the excuses! This is life or death!” He grabbed my arm and dragged me toward the doctor. “She’s O–negative. Take
whatever you need!”
I struggled, but his grip was like iron. I asked him, my voice dripping with cold irony, “I thought you didn’t know me? How do you
know I have a rare blood type?”
I held his gaze, waiting for his answer.
