Evelyn Steele looked calm, and there was no longer any ripple in her heart.
After all, we knew the ending in advance, so there was really nothing to be surprised about.
"But Dad, I've been waiting for this medicine for three years." Evelyn Steele lowered her eyes, her face slightly pale with frailty. "I may not be able to wait another three years."
The next time it's my turn, it may take more than three years. There have been so many changes in the meantime. Who knows if Evelyn Steele can hold on until then?
Richard Steele's breathing stagnated, and he suddenly felt a pain in his heart and could hardly breathe.
He seemed to realize at this moment that his casual move had cut off his daughter's hope of survival.
The situation at that time... He couldn't blame Lila Carter, but he couldn't face Lila Carter's pitiful face.
The atmosphere was a little stagnant for a moment.
"It's all my fault!" Lila Carter bit her lower lip lightly, taking the responsibility, "I was the one who knelt down and begged Mr. Steele, I..."
"It's understandable that you're asking for medicine for your mother," Evelyn Steele suddenly interrupted her.
It is understandable that Lila Carter saved her mother, but it is not understandable that Richard Steele gave up his daughter's life-saving medicine.
"Since it's a life-saving medicine, it doesn't matter who uses it. As long as it works, that's good. At worst, I can just continue to queue." She looked calm and her eyes were clear, as if the person who lost the life-saving medicine was not her.
Richard Steele felt as if he had been slapped in the face. His face was burning and he had never felt so embarrassed before.
"Sister Evelyn, you still have me. I can donate blood and bone marrow! Our bone marrows are matched, we have already checked it!" Lila Carter suddenly said.
Evelyn Steele just interrupted her because she didn't want her to talk about this topic.
In the novel, Lila Carter first mentioned the matter of donating bone marrow.
So the matter of the two doses of medicine was just passed over in a vague manner, as if it had never existed at all.
After donating her bone marrow, Lila Carter completely became Evelyn Steele's savior. Evelyn Steele was destined to be inferior to Lila Carter.
Every time there was a conflict between the two, everyone sided with Lila Carter, using her status as a savior to pressure Evelyn Steele, forcing her to give in to Lila Carter again and again.
Richard Steele and his son, also because of the bone marrow donation, openly treated Lila Carter well, praised her very highly, and gave her an extraordinary status in the Xi family.
As for Lila Carter, she calmly accepted the role of Evelyn Steele's savior and did not mention the fact that the Xi family used Evelyn Steele's life-saving medicine on her mother.
Now that she knew all this, there was no way Evelyn Steele would accept Lila Carter's bone marrow donation and put herself in debt to others for nothing.
"Forget about donating blood and bone marrow. You're so thin, I'm afraid your body can't handle it." Evelyn Steele smiled calmly, "Besides, with the Yan family's financial resources, it shouldn't be difficult to find a suitable bone marrow."
Grandpa said that the Yan family has its own character. She has been with her mother since she was a child and has become indifferent to life and death.
If she had to bow down to Lila Carter and tolerate her because she received her bone marrow, and allow the other party to smear her and her mother's reputation, she would rather die.
However, her mother might not have been able to make it in time, but she might not be able to cure cancer on her own.
The expression on Lila Carter's face froze. She probably didn't expect that someone would actually refuse the hope of living.
Richard Steele frowned: "Evelyn, don't say such childish things. Lila donated her bone marrow voluntarily."
"That's right! She stole your medicine, so what's wrong with donating bone marrow? Isn't it right?" Matthew Steele originally had a good impression of Lila Carter, but now after hearing the whole story, he immediately had a dissatisfaction with Lila Carter.
Lila Carter's face was filled with guilt. She clenched her fists and made up her mind: "Sister Evelyn, don't say anything. I should save you. It's... repaying a favor."
When she said the word "repay a favor", she felt like vomiting blood in her heart. What was going on? Why did the situation turn around and Evelyn Steele became her family's savior?
She clearly wanted to seize the initiative, make Evelyn Steele owe her a life forever, and make everyone else grateful to her.
Now she has been put on the spot, but she has to ask Evelyn Steele to accept her bone marrow donation, otherwise she will never be able to get over this hurdle in her life.
Lila Carter had not expected the bad start.
"Repay a favor? Not really." Evelyn Steele smiled and shook her head. "The two doses of single-cell injections are publicly sold at 1.8 million each by the F Research Institute. The Yan family did spend some effort on them. Let's just say 200,000. You can just pay me 3.8 million and we'll settle the deal."
At the price of 3.8 million, Evelyn Steele is not bullying Lila Carter and is charging her money very generously.
Sure enough, upon hearing this, Matthew Steele exploded first: "3.8 million? No way! Uncle Yao and his men spent a lot of effort to establish this relationship!"
Otherwise, with so many cancer patients around the world, why was Evelyn Steele able to get a spot in the queue? It was all because of the Yan family's connections!
The look in Matthew Steele's eyes when he looked at Lila Carter no longer had the joy he had in the past few days. Instead, it was filled with hostility. If he had known that this woman was here to harm his sister, he would have wanted to bite her to death!
Richard Steele also felt that it was inappropriate: "No, Evelyn, that would be too disadvantageous for you..."
He frowned, as if he was thinking about Evelyn Steele wholeheartedly. "Evelyn, don't be too kind, and don't think too much. Donating bone marrow is what she should do as a child..."
"If you felt you were at a disadvantage, why did you give up the medicine in the first place?" Evelyn Steele suddenly said.
These words made Richard Steele stunned, and then, a deep sense of guilt appeared in his eyes.
He was also bewildered at the time. Seeing Lila Carter kneeling at his feet and begging desperately, her face, which looked 70% like Evelyn, was full of tear marks and despair, which reminded him of the hardships Evelyn had gone through when seeking medical treatment for his wife.
For a moment, I softened my heart and gave the potion to Lila Carter.
Although I regretted it afterwards, I comforted myself that Lila Carter was willing to donate bone marrow, which was the same.
But now, facing Evelyn Steele's condemnation, he felt very uneasy in his heart, and this uneasiness made him regret more.
Lila Carter was slightly shocked. She knew that things couldn't go on like this. She wished she could give her bone marrow to Evelyn Steele right away!
How could Evelyn Steele let her speak again? She smiled and said, "Since you gave it up, there's no loss. After all, you saved a life, didn't you?"
She looked at Lila Carter with a smile, "Can you write me an IOU? Then you won't have to feel sorry for me when you work hard to make money and pay me back."
Lila Carter passively and helplessly wrote an IOU to Evelyn Steele.
When she was asked to leave by the housekeeper, she heard Matthew Steele complaining, "I'm so angry, Evelyn, you are just too kind! Why do you have to be so considerate of others and take care of her self-esteem? Has she ever considered you?"
Richard Steele sat aside, saying nothing, his heart and eyes filled with heartache, guilt and worry.
He never even looked at her.
All this made Lila Carter feel annoyed. She knew that even if they wrote the IOU, it seemed that they owed each other nothing, but in fact she had lost completely and would always be inferior to Evelyn Steele.