CHAPTER 30 A PHYSICAL EXAMINATION

"Why are you suddenly asking about her?" Shane's lips curled into a small smile as a glint flashed across his eyes. "Didn't you say that she is just a nobody? Since she doesn't matter, you shouldn't concern yourself with whether she’d suffer from any long-term side effects.”

Henry grew displeased. "I indeed said such a thing, but that doesn't mean that I'm willing to see something happen to her."

"Seems like you still care a great deal about her," Shane chuckled.

Henry pressed his lips impatiently. "Answer my question!"

"Fine, I'll tell you." Shane sat up straight and grew serious. "She is in good physical condition, but I can’t tell for sure if she'll suffer from any long-term side effects. After all, I wasn’t the one who checked her last time. Why don't you bring her to me and I’ll get her checked personally?"

"Alright, I'll bring her over in a while." Henry agreed without thinking.

After hanging up the phone, he took his coat off the coat rack and went out of his office.

Henry stopped at the door of her office, then lifted his hand to knock on the door twice. "Yvonne Frey."

Yvonne raised her head from behind the computer, with a pair of ugly and dumb-looking black- rimmed glasses resting on the bridge of her nose. "Mr.

Lancaster?”

“Why are you wearing glasses?" Henry knitted his eyebrows together and asked rather disapprovingly, i

Not only did this woman never have a good fashion sense, but even her taste in glasses was poor.

Yvonne stood up and replied, "My astigmatism gets worse after spending too much time in front of the computer. I can't see clearly without glasses."

Henry raised his eyebrows slightly, "How come I never knew you had this problem?" 2

"I've had it since a long time ago," Yvonne smiled at him.

He really didn't know much about her.

Yet, she kept everything she knew about him in her mind.

Henry dropped the subject. He put on the coat he had draped over his arm and spoke in a cold voice,"

Alright, come with me." 1

"Where are we going?” Yvonne rubbed the back of her neck and looked at him skeptically.

"The hospital." "What are we going to do at the hospital?"

Henry looked down at his phone and sent a text message to Joe, asking him to arrange a car while responding to the question indifferently, "I told you last time that I'd bring you for a physical examination t o determine if you'll get any long-term side effects after donating your bone marrow." 1

The expression on Yvonne's face slowly froze as her heart throbbed in pain.

She remembered that he did mention that last time and told her not to get sick within these two months.

At that time, she didn't know that he was after her bone marrow so she thought that he genuinely cared about her and was happy about it for a long time.

It was now that she had finally connected the dots and understood everything. He wanted to bring her for a physical examination and didn't want her to get sick because he wanted to ensure the health of her bone marrow. 1

Thinking of this, Yvonne bit her lip and asked, "If I’m going to get long-term side effects, will you still make me the donor?"

Henry paused his typing. He looked up at her pale little face and suddenly realized that he couldn't answer her question.

His logic told him that if she would be suffering from any long-term side effects, then he indeed shouldn’t let her be the donor.

But on the other hand, Jackie had special bone marrow and Yvonne was the only match they could find for now. If he wouldn't make her the donor due to the long-term side effects, then Jackie would die... 3

Neither of these two results was desirable to him.

"Let's just get it checked out before we talk about this." Henry lowered his gaze as a sense of unprecedented powerlessness arose in his heart.

"Alright." Yvonne took a deep breath and suppressed her urge to cry. "Are we going to the hospital now?" 1

Henry didn't answer her question clearly. Was he telling her that even if the doctor determined that she would be suffering from long-term side effects, he would still make her the donor?

Henry hummed in response. "We'll go right away!"

"But I still have a lot of work to do, can I..."

"I'll have Joe take over your work." Henry put his phone away and interrupted her, leaving no room for discussion.

Knowing that she wouldn’t be able to escape this trip, Yvonne lowered her head and quietly packed her bag then followed Henry out of the company.

During the entire ride, Yvonne looked out of the window blankly and didn’t say a single word. It was disturbingly quiet in the car.

Henry glanced at her a few times out of the corner of his eye and saw her frowning. Thinking that she was just worried about finding out whether she would suffer from any long-term side effects, Henry comforted her, "Don't worry, I won't let anything happen to you."

Yvonne didn't respond to him and seemed as though she didn’t hear him.

Henry pursed his thin lips. "Yvonne Frey, I'm talking t o you."

"I heard you," she finally responded, but didn't turn her head back and continued looking out of the window. "Sometimes, not everything will be fine just because you say so." 1

Henry was taken aback before falling silent.

The atmosphere in the car started to get depressing. The temperature seemed to have dropped several degrees, and it was so silent that they could hear each other breathing.

No one spoke again during the entire journey...

When they arrived at the hospital, Henry stopped the car and went around to open the door for Yvonne after getting out first.

Not only did Yvonne feel flattered from receiving such special attention from Henry for the very first time, but she even felt valued by him.

However, these feelings faded as soon as she saw the hospital's entrance.

Henry tossed his car key to the parking valet and looked at the woman behind him, "Let's go.”

The woman nodded and followed behind him.

Henry took Yvonne directly to Shane's office. When Shane saw them, he dismissed the nurses around him with a wave.

"You guys are here!"

"I’ll leave her in your hands, Shane." Henry pushed Yvonne toward the doctor.

Shane smiled at her. "Come with me, sis-in-law. We'll d o a blood test first."

"...Alright." Yvonne acknowledged his instruction out o f politeness.

In the blood room, Shane drew a tube full of blood from Yvonne. He couldn’t help but raise his brow when he noticed that she didn’t even flinch. "Sis-inlaw, you’re really quite brave to not be shouting in pain."

Yvonne pressed on the cotton and smiled faintly, "I'm already used to it."

"Used to it?" Shane handed the tube of blood to the nurse for further testing, and sat down to chat with her.

Yvonne nodded slightly, "My mom always beat me ever since childhood. Compared to that, this pain is nothing." 1

"Your mom doesn't treat you well?" "She's biased to her son." Seeing that the blood had stopped, Yvonne removed the cotton and rolled down her sleeves.

The corners of Shane's lips twitched. "You really had i t tough, sis-in-law." holds this content.

"It's all in the past now." Yvonne shrugged slightly.

She had never been the favorite child.

When she was little, she would be upset over the fact that her parents favored her younger brother more.

But now she no longer cared. She was only tired of being asked for a ridiculous amount of money from time to time.

"Dr. Summers, can you come here for a moment?” The nurse who was the blood test suddenly came over.

Shane pushed up his glasses. "What's the matter?”

The nurse looked like she was going to say something but stopped when she saw Yvonne.

Yvonne sensed something and immediately realized that they might be talking about her. "Is there something wrong with my blood test?"

"Don't worry about it yet, sis-in-law. I'll take a look first.” Shane assured her before leaving with the nurse.

"Just what’s going on?" The expression on Shane’s face turned serious as soon as they entered the test

lab.

"The result of Miss Frey's blood test is out. This is hers, and this is Miss Conrad’s. You'll know what I’m saying if you compare them." The nurse handed the two blood test results to Shane. 2

Shane compared both of them and was shocked. "How could this be? Are you sure you didn’t make a mistake?"

"Yes, I've redone the tests several times and gotten the same result."

Shane fell silent as his eyes wavered behind his glasses. A few minutes later, he tightened his grip on the two results in his hands and shot a warning look a t the nurse. "You mustn't disclose this matter or tell anyone. Otherwise, the consequences are yours to bear!"

The nurse went pale from fright and nodded her head vehemently.

Yvonne was extremely anxious when she saw Shane coming out with a frown. She instantly jumped up from her seat. "Dr. Summers, is there really a problem with my blood test?"