The Barrister's Love in Town

after Aiden. I’ve brought you. supper. Here, have some. Otherwise, who will take care of

Aiden if you fall sick?”

As she watched Elias place the packed supper on the coffee table, she smiled slightly

before walking over. “Alright.”

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1/3

Elias went to Aiden’s hospital bed as he glanced at his sleeping son and caressed his face

gently. The indifference in his eyes instantly turned slightly warmer. Indeed, Elias, who

treated outsiders apathetically the whole time, only reserved all his love for Amanda and

Aiden.

“According to the doctor, Baby can undergo the bone marrow transplant at the end of this

month, and they will have to help him prepare for the surgery these days. They mentioned

something about injections, but I have no medical background, so I don’t quite understand

these medical terms. Anyway, they will arrange the bone marrow transplant procedure

soon.” Amanda couldn’t help beaming with joy whenever she brought up this good news.

On the contrary, Elias remained silent. After a while, he sat beside Amanda and gradually

said, “Don’t get too carried away just yet. Let me look up the donor’s information.”

Amanda, who was picking up her cutlery, paused for a second. Her smile froze at the

corner of her lips as she looked up at Elias and asked, “What do you mean?”

“Nothing. Perhaps, I’m merely paranoid. But… It will make me feel more at ease if we look

up the donor’s background.”

“You’re probably overthinking things. The hospital found this donor from the Corynthea

Marrow Donor Program’s list. There is no way Taylor can tamper with it. Amanda felt that

Elias was being a little oversensitive.

Still, Elias furrowed his brows tightly. “Maybe.”

After a while, Yacob called. He probably had found out the donor’s information.

Elias answered the phone with a solemn expression on his face, “Tell me, what have you

found?”

Amanda, who stood aside, involuntarily turned stiff as she listened to the conversation

quietly. As the ward was too silent to the point that even the sound of a needle dropping to

the ground could be heard, she could hear everything clearly.

On the other end of the phone, Yacob reported, “Mr. Winters, I have found out that the

donor is a woman. around 24 years old and a normal office worker.

Elias finally breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing Yacob’s words. It seems that the

hospital has indeed found a suitable bone marrow match for Aiden.

Next to him, Amanda also slightly eased up her tense nerves after she heard what Yacob

reported. Then, she couldn’t help smiling. “Told you! It’s you who overthinks. There are

numerous donors in the Corynthea Marrow Donor Program’s list, so there’s bound to have

one that matches Aiden’s.”

“In that case, ask the hospital not to wait any longer and arrange the bone marrow

transplant procedure as soon as possible. Similar to Edith, Elias feared that there would be

a chance of complications arising from their undue delay. Furthermore, he was afraid that

the donor would have a sudden change of mind. After all, such events did occur to some

patients before.

“Okay,” Amanda hummed.

Thus, the hospital was preparing for the surgical procedure the following week.

Everyone was looking forward to the day of the surgery. Although Aiden was very

uncooperative, he would still obediently take his medicine and injections under Amanda’s

coax.

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2/3

Finally, it was the day before the surgery. Everything was all set, and all that was left was

tomorrow’s surgical procedure. Amanda was truly glad that she could finally tell Aiden

they could go home soon.

“Mommy, are we really going home soon? I really want to go home. I don’t like staying

here!”

“Yeah. We can go home soon.” Amanda wished that tomorrow could arrive quickly, and

Aiden could get his bone marrow transplant so badly.

Just then, a nurse came to the ward and said, “Aiden Bailey’s family members? Dr. Smith is

asking for you.”

“Coming” Amanda didn’t give it much thought. She turned to look at Aiden and said,

“Baby, stay here and wait for me, okay? I’ll be back in a jiffy.”

“Okay.”

Since there wasn’t a single sign of impending doom, Amanda thought Christopher wanted

to brief her on some things that she needed to watch out for Aiden’s surgery. “Dr. Smith,

are you looking for me?” she knocked on the door and asked. Christopher was in the midst

of looking up some information when he heard the knock on the door. He turned around

and beckoned, “Oh, yes. Please take a seat, Miss Bailey. I have something I want to tell

you.”

“What is it?”

“It’s uh… I know Aiden will undergo his bone marrow transplant tomorrow, but the donor

has a sudden change of mind and refuses to donate no matter what

At once, the smile on Amanda’s face froze, and her heart instantly sank to the bottom.

Sure enough, this news came like a bolt from the blue. How can this be!?

“What’s going on? Is it because it’s for free? Tell the donor we will pay them. Money really

isn’t a problem.”

Christopher shook his head upon hearing that. “No, no, It’s not because of money. It’s

because the donor’s family refuses to give their consent. Anyway, the donor did leave a

phone number and an address, saying that she will donate her bone marrow if you can

convince her family.”

After that, Christopher handed Amanda a piece of paper with a phone number and an

address written on it.

“It says here, St. Helen. This donor lives in a sanatorium?” Amanda had a puzzled look on

her face.

“According to the donor, her family lives there. Miss Bailey, this is a golden opportunity. If

possible, please try to convince the donor’s family. That way, we can proceed with

tomorrow’s surgery without any problems, Christopher elaborated earnestly.

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go there right away.” Amanda took the paper, turned around, and left Christopher’s office.

When she noticed that the sky was about to turn dark soon, she decided not to delay even

a second. In fact, she had no time to call Elias and relay this to him.