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Chapter One
Have you made contact yet? The clock’s ticking.
I stared at the text message, the only person from my past I truly kept in touch with. Feverishly, after glancing around to make sure I wasn’t being watched, I responded.
No.
He needs another match, and she’s the only blood who could possibly save him. After this, he goes on some transplant list and things go from bad to worse.
I know. I know. I’m working on it.
Work harder.
Then drag your sorry ass here and talk to her yourself.
I rubbed my back, along the right side, feeling the raised five-inch scar beneath my shirt. There was only one kidney left inside my body as I had already given him my other four years ago. It sucked it didn’t last as long as we had been told, but I couldn’t go on dialysis for the rest of my life and give up my other kidney. Pretty sure there was some unwritten rule that a healthy person had to keep their organs, no matter how sick the dying recipient was. Besides, my father would take the higher road and refuse, that much I knew. As it was, it had been damn near impossible to get him to accept my kidney and go from a more natural approach in his medical care to one that now involved daily pills for organ rejection. But longevity won out over stubborn refusal.
I typed back to Everest, my brother from another mother.Didn’t you match?
Not even close. He may not even be my father.
What?
That wasn’t a conversation for texting, however. I needed to hear his voice and get all the answers, but I was at work. I wasn’t even supposed to be on my phone as it was.
I’ll tell you later. Right now, she’s the last possible blood match.
That we’re aware of.
I threw in the dig. After all, it was only a week ago I learned about the sister I’d never known.
Be nice.
Bite me.
My best comeback. The only one in my arsenal.
I’ll call you later.
You’d better. You have some explaining to do.
You’ll get all the deets. Find her though. She lives nearby...
Which I already knew. How ironic.
Two years ago, I deliberately moved away from my father and our living accommodations, to spread my wings and learn who I am and who I wanted to be, only to find out that Cheshire Bay wasn’t a big enough place to do all that. Not when everyone here knew everyone else.
Two years after trying to find myself the only thing I had discovered, and that was only a week ago, was how my estranged sister also lived in the same small town.
Apparently, I was still learning to stop being a pushover because I’d been tasked with the impossible, and I’d agreed to find this sister, get her up to speed real quick on the situation, and then drop the bomb asking if she’d be willing to donate a kidney to her father; a person she maybe didn’t even know existed.
There was probably a reason she left and a bigger reason why I never knew of her until a week ago.
Thanks Everest. What a pain in my ass.
I typed a quickI gotta goas I locked eyes with my boss who’d walked behind the counter with a tray of fresh pastries. In my rush to hide my phone, I stuffed it into the apron pocket and grabbed the cloth to rewash a table, trying to appear like I was actually working and not messing around.
But I was washing the table with the dry cloth, which was doing jack shit.
