Chapter 17 - Silent Emergency
The loud ringing of Emily's phone broke the heavy silence of the laboratory.
"Ms. Vance! It's the nanny!" a frantic voice screamed through the receiver.
"Ethan collapsed at the park! He's not breathing properly and his fever is rising!"
Emily dropped her phone, her heart dropping into a dark abyss of panic.
Ryan grabbed her hand, rushing her out of the laboratory toward his private vehicle parked outside.
They blew through four red lights on Fifth Avenue, racing toward New York-Presbyterian Children's Hospital.
Inside the pediatric emergency room, doctors rushed Ethan into the trauma bay while hookups beeped wildly.
"He has acute aplastic anemia," the lead physician announced grimly after emergency bloodwork.
"He needs an immediate bone marrow match, or his organs will shut down within forty-eight hours."
Emily leaned against the wall, her knees buckling under the overwhelming agony of the news.
Ryan stepped forward immediately, rolling up his sleeve without a second thought.
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"Test me right now," Ryan commanded the chief surgeon. "I'm his biological father."
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