Chapter 5

An unfamiliar female voice came through the phone. "Hello, is this Quinn Browning? This is Dr. Cole, Hannah's attending doctor. Hannah's condition is critical. If we can't find a matching bone marrow donor soon, I'm afraid—"

"Look," I cut her off, "I've made my position clear. I won't donate. Stop calling me."

"Wait!" the doctor, Keira Cole, said urgently. "I'm not here to pressure you. Actually, we've found a perfect match in the bone marrow registry. But the procedures will take some time...

"So I wanted to ask if you could donate a small amount of hematopoietic stem cells first,…