"W-what?!" Gabe stared at the young nurse in utter disbelief, stumbling back two steps before he even realized what he was doing. "No, this can't be! You're lying to me!"
The man ground his molars so hard they ached, his gaze blazing with a wild mix of stunned shock and searing rage.
"It's true! Miss Rose said that the child was only meant to be an organ donor anyway, so we could get as much blood as we wanted!" The nurse scrambled to explain herself. "She also said if anything went wrong, she'd take full blame and protect all of us. She told us to just do the blood draw without worrying…"
"Shut up!" The man roared the order, cutting her off sharply. But that unshakable certainty he had carried just moments earlier was gone completely from his eyes.
All the little loose ends and niggli
