"Living person?" Elsie caught the pensive look on Charlotte's face.

Charlotte was looking at Leland.

Elsie glanced back and forth between the two patients.

One was bedbound, the other wheelchair-bound.

Her eyes widened. 'Is Mr Hewitt-'_

She caught herself.

She cast a hurried look towards the door before bending down to whisper in Charlotte's ear. 'Is Mr Hewitt the organ donor?"

charlotte nodded.

Then she warned the housekeeper in a stem voice. 'Don't breathe a word of this to Kira, you understand?"

Elsie nodded quickly. 'I do, I do."

It took her a long while to absorb the shocking news.

The housekeeper wning her hands

'But Madam, how can you just give up? There has to be some other way. Another donor, perhaps?!

'There isn't. And I'm tired of fighting.' Charlotte's voice was filled with fatigue, but also tranquillity. 'Let nature take its course. I've come back to Stamford because I don't want to die in a lonely hospital bed. She clutched Elsie's hand. want to die in my own home, surrounded by my loved ones."

Elsie's voice shook "But...but...!

she had no idea what she wanted to say,

She knew Charlotte well.

The woman wouldn't hurt a fly, let alone take someone's life to save her own.

But neither could Elsie stand by and watch her give up the fight.

Elsie grasped the wheelchair's push handle.This belongs to - ©.

She couldn't help but look at Leland again.

He was Charlotte's last hope for survival, but he was also Young Madam's father...

Kira caught up with Dr Morrison in the hallway outside.

The doctor was on his way back to his office.

His update remained the same-Leland was in a stable condition, neither getting better nor worse.

Kira couldn't hide the disappointment on her face.

wake up her father.

She thought maybe the good news of her pregnancy plus her impending wedding might be the jolt that would finally SON But miracles were hard to come by these days.