a billionaire collapsed from a heart attack on a crowded park path, watching stranger after stranger walk past without stopping — then two five-year-old girls in worn-out shoes rushed to his side and screamed until someone finally came to help. eleven days later, believing he owed his life to two children he had never met, he asked to meet their mother… only to freeze when she entered his hospital room wearing a small silver compass that belonged to a past he thought was gone forever.

Maya collapsed onto the floor of the speeding boat, her breathing shallow and erratic.

The little girls screamed, desperately clutching their mother’s blood-soaked jacket.

Ethan knew that taking her to a normal hospital would immediately alert Daniel's corrupt police contacts.

He ordered Vance through the radio to prepare the underground clinic run by a disgraced mob doctor.

They dragged the boat onto a secluded muddy riverbank on the outskirts of the city.

Ethan carried his bleeding daughter in his arms, his own failing heart struggling under the heavy weight.

They kicked open the door to a dingy, hidden basement where the unlicensed surgeon was waiting.

The doctor took one look at Maya’s pale face and said she needed emergency surgery immediately.

He warned Ethan that she had lost a catastrophic amount of blood and would die without a transfusion.

Maya had an extremely rare blood type, and the clinic had absolutely no bags in stock.

Ethan rolled up his bloody sleeve without hesitating.

He told the doctor that he was her biological father and shared the exact same rare blood type.

When my newborn 'passed away,' my mother-in-law leaned in and said

My Husband Left Me Alone in My Car While I Was in Labor

“You’re Dead When We Get Home,” He Snapped

The doctor shook his head, looking at the heavy bruising on Ethan’s chest from his recent heart attack.

He warned Ethan that draining his blood in his current cardiac condition would undoubtedly kill him.

Chapter 7 - The Race Against Time