Chapter 4
Three busy days passed quickly.
Grover hadn’t contacted her.
Had he signed the divorce agreement?
It had been three days, and there was still no sign of movement
on his part.
She hadn’t emailed him the divorce agreement or asked anyone else to deliver it, worried that something might go wrong or the
papers wouldn’t reach him. That was why she’d decided to hand
them over personally.
He must have seen the agreement.
It was straightforward and clear. What was he waiting for?
As she was lost in thought, Tracie’s phone suddenly rang. It was
an unfamiliar number.
She answered, “Hello, who is this?”
“Tracie! Why did you block me? You need to get to the hospital
right now and give my son a blood transfusion!” On the other
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end, Grover’s sister, Lesa Stanton, was urgently demanding.
Lesa had a ten–year–old illegitimate son.
No one knew who the father was.
When the child was four, he was diagnosed with a rare bone
marrow disease that affected both his blood production and
clotting ability.
The boy suffered from chronic anemia, and to make things
worse, he had a rare blood type–O–negative blood.
In the entire family, only Tracie and the boy shared the same
blood type.
To fit in with the Stanton family and win Grover’s favor, Tracie
had volunteered to be the child’s blood donor.
She thought that doing this would earn her some approval from
the family, that Grover might start seeing her differently.
But that was just a naive fantasy.
The Stanton family still treated her poorly.
Even the illegitimate son, Oliver Stanton, who was benefiting from her blood, had the audacity to complain, “My mom says
your blood is like you–cheap! It’s only good enough for
!…
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emergencies. Don’t think it’ll make me, my mom, or my uncle
like you more!”
Looking back over the past six years, Tracie realized just how
small and humbling she had allowed herself to become.
She only had herself to blame.
She had been cheap–indeed.
But not anymore.
“I won’t give your son a blood transfusion. I won’t do it again,
ever,” Tracie said bluntly to Lesa.
“My son will die if he doesn’t get the transfusion! How can you
be so heartless?” Lesa’s voice trembled with emotion.
“Well, you don’t need the blood of a heartless woman,” Tracie
replied coldly, then hung up.
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Once she’d cut ties, there was no point in wasting any more
words.
Staring at the phone in stunned silence, Lesa finally
remembered to call Grover.
When Grover received Lesa’s call, he felt a cold shiver run
through him.
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She might be upset enough to stay away for three days, but this was a life–or–death situation.
He hung up on Lesa and immediately called Tracie.
Tracie had expected his call to be related to Lesa’s request, but
she still answered.
“Mr. Stanton, has the divorce agreement been signed?”
“Go to the hospital and give Oliver a blood transfusion!” Grover’s
voice on the other end was cold, final, and not open for
discussion.
“I won’t go,” Tracie replied in a similarly cold tone.
Grover on the other end of the line froze for a moment.
She was actually refusing?
He had never even considered the possibility.
After a brief pause, his voice grew more stern. “Are you sure?
You’ve thought this through?”
“Yes.””
What was there to think about?
She had already given up on Grover and Wendi. How could she
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possibly donate blood to someone who wasn’t even related to
her?
“The divorce agreement…”
Tracie had planned to ask if he had signed the divorce papers.
But before she could get another word out, Grover hung up the
phone.
“What’s going on, Grover?” Juliana asked, glancing at him.
Juliana had been invited to the house by Grover.
Meanwhile, Wendi had been asking why Tracie hadn’t come
home after three day.
Grover, too, was caught off guard.
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