Chapter 84

"Mom, what's going on?" asked Emily, who had rushed in after Emma had called her. Unpleasant news, to be sure. However, Emma did not say it clearly. She only asked Emily to come over because she had something to say.

"Your father ... he decided to donate his marrow to Lyla. You know how Charles is. He has heart disease; what if—"

Emily turned frantic instantly. She grabbed her cell phone and called Jeffry to help her look for Charles, who might still be around the hospital. Emily hoped that Jeffry would prevent whatever the middle-aged man was going to do.

However, Jeffry's answer made Emily even more panicked.

"I only met him once, when he had just come out of doctor John Armando's office. But I don't know where he went after that. And I don't care."

Emily then hurried away without saying goodbye because she didn't have time for that. The most important thing was that she needed to find Charles before he did something reckless.

He could be desperate to do a test to find out whether h