Filed to story: Mia Bowen and Timothy Barrett Novel
Luna didn’t react to that.
“Could you let Asher go?” Sharon was concerned.
“If something happens to my daughter because of the missing bone marrow, I will make sure Asher goes to hell. I promise,” Mia threatened.
“Don’t you dare!”
Panic surged within Luna like a tidal wave, as she wasn’t sure if the nurse had disposed of the bone marrow.
If the nurse had thrown it away, Mia might really hurt Asher!
Left with no choice, Luna pleaded with Timothy, “Tim, you promised to protect Asher for life! You can’t take that back now!”
“If I can’t protect my own daughter, why must I protect someone else’s son?” Timothy said calmly. His firm stance broke the last straw in her. She turned to Sharon. “Mrs. Barrett, you like Asher so much!”
Sharon was confused. “What do you mean by that, Tim? Asher’s not your son?”
Luna interrupted her, “Asher’s your grandson! Tim promised to treat Asher like his own son! Does it really matter if he’s really his biological son?”
Sharon was shell-shocked. Asher wasn’t Timothy’s son after all!
“I’ve never admitted that he’s my son,” Timothy responded coldly.
That was quite a surprise to Mia. Sharon thought that Asher was Timothy’s son this whole time.
In fact, Mia had assumed the same before.
Timothy and Luna were the only ones who knew, and they kept the others in the dark.
Regardless, Mia wasn’t in the mood to watch those ladies lock horns.
“Keep an eye on Luna. Don’t let her escape,” Mia ordered her bodyguards before leaving the house. She had to go to the hospital as soon as possible.
Timothy followed after her. Finding the bone marrow was of utmost priority now.
The moment Mia seated herself in the car, Timothy squeezed himself into the car too.
The car became cramped.
She looked at him with a puzzled expression. “Don’t you have a car?”
Her tone was unfriendly because Timothy was the cause of this entire problem.
“It’s more convenient to go together.” He pretended not to notice her bad mood.
Mia knew it was a mere excuse. It wouldn’t make any difference to travel in different cars.
Treating the person next to her as invisible, she didn’t utter a word throughout the journey.
A while later, Timothy sneaked a peek at her. In the end, he blurted, “I overlooked things. I’m sorry.” “Apology rejected. You know what cops are for,” Mia snapped.
“How would you like to settle this?”
“I don’t care about anything else. I just want to get to the bone marrow as soon as possible. If it’s destroyed, I hope you won’t get in my way, Mr. Barrett, or you might get hurt.”
He went silent for a moment. “You can do anything to Luna, but that boy is innocent. He doesn’t know what his mother has been up to.”
He was trying to protect the child.
She smirked. “She did all this for him, no? Although I hate him, I don’t really want to kill him. He should blame his fate for having such a mother. I don’t care about him. He’s not my son anyway.” Her son was still waiting in the vacuum chamber, waiting for her to bring back the bone marrow. Silence, again.
Then, Timothy spoke up, “I’m not Asher’s father. Actually—“
“You don’t have to tell me this. I don’t want to hear any of this right now,” she cut him off. “Who his father is has nothing to do with me. Your son or not, I don’t care.”
Timothy swallowed hard. “So, even if Asher’s my son, you’d be unbothered by it?” His gaze on Mia was serious.
“What is there to be bothered by? We’re divorced. Whoever you have kids with doesn’t have anything to do with me.” Her tone was calm yet stern.
Irked by the answer, he loosened his tie. Although it was true that they were legally divorced, it was frustrating to hear that.
The conversation ended there.
The driver drove them to the hospital at the fastest speed possible.
Mia had ordered her men to find the said nurse in the hospital while she was on the way there. That way, the nurse wouldn’t run away after catching wind of it.
Finally, Mia and Timothy could meet the nurse.
A while ago, some bodyguards caught her and locked her up in the room. She had a hunch that it was related to the bone marrow.
Her whole body was shaking. Regret consumed her. She rued the decision she made, taking the risk due to greed.
Mia kicked the door open, storming into the room like thunder.
Glaring at the nurse, she threatened, “If you want to live, tell me where the bone marrow is.” Timothy added sternly, “You better not have thrown it away like what Luna told you to do.”
The nurse quickly admitted, “I didn’t! I still have it!”
Relief lifted the weight off Mia’s chest when she heard that. The tension in the room willed away. She approached the nurse. Her tone became gentle. “Very well. As long as you still have it, we can have a nice talk.”
The nurse hurriedly recounted, “Although Ms. Maynard told me to do whatever I want with it, I was worried so I kept it. It’s safe. There shouldn’t be a problem with it.”
“Good, where is it?”
“There’s a shared refrigerator in the office. It’s in a container with my name on it.”
Timothy motioned for the bodyguards to look for the bone marrow.
Soon, the container was found. The bone marrow was perfectly fine.
The doctor checked the bone marrow. “It’s nicely kept. We can use it.”
Those words lifted the weight off Mia’s shoulders like a pair of invisible hands.
The nurse begged, “I’m so sorry. I did it because I needed the money to treat my family. The past few days felt so awful and I didn’t dare to throw the bone marrow away.”
Mia said, “If you don’t want to be held accountable for this, you have to promise me one thing.” The nurse nodded without hesitation. “I’ll do anything you say.”
“I’m going to sue the people who orchestrated the theft, so I hope you can be the witness. I will make them pay for it.” Mia could never forgive what Luna and Sharon had done.
It was sheer luck that the bone marrow was still safe. Otherwise, Sage would’ve had to welcome his death awaiting him in the vacuum chamber!
There was no way she could forgive those wicked women.
The nurse agreed almost immediately because her life was spared.
The bodyguards took her away.
Mia talked to the doctor, “Deliver the bone marrow to Nord City immediately. Check everything carefully. There’s no room for mistakes.”
“On it.” The doctor nodded.
“Wait!” Timothy called.
Mia cast a wary look at him. “Anything you need?”
Timothy noticed that Mia still had her guards up. “Can we talk? Alone.”
She nodded, ordering the doctor and her bodyguards to leave the room.
They were still in Bern City. If she had bad blood with Timothy, it would be difficult for her to do things in Bern City in the future.
There shouldn’t be any misunderstandings at this critical moment.
They were left alone in the room and became equally wary.
Mia dived straight into the conversation. “What would you like to talk about?”
Judging from how he tried to stop the doctor from delivering the bone marrow to Nord City, was he regretting his decision?
“After what happened, I think it’s best that the final treatment take place in Bern City. What do you think?” Timothy asked.
She gulped down her saliva as her guess was right.
She knew this bastard would surely request this!
“I don’t think so,” she rejected him straightforwardly.
His brows furrowed. “If it’s about the treatment, you have nothing to worry about at all. Ginger’s my daughter. I will give her the best. The medical team will only be as competitive as the ones in Nord City.”
Most importantly, he didn’t want Nicholas to treat his daughter.
Previously, he didn’t know that he had a child, let alone the fact that Ginger was his daughter.