Eve
I felt like I’d been wrung out and left to dry.
One pint. That’s all they took. One single pint for Margot’s treatment, and yet my legs shook as I walked out of the hospital donation center. My skin was clammy, vision swimming at the edges, and the world too bright and too loud. I had to stop twice just to lean against the wall and breathe.
Aunt Clarissa and Margot hadn’t even waited for me to finish. They’d breezed in, Clarissa barking orders at the nurse, Margot scrolling on her phone like I was furniture. When I came out, pale and unsteady, I’d joked weakly, “A simple thank you would do.”
Clarissa had looked at me over her glasses. “You’re not doing this for free, Eve. Don’t pretend otherwise.”
As if the money made up for the fact that no one in that room actually cared if I fe
