The old Master chuckled. His tone was calm as though he had everything under control, which was also his way of showing his contempt to Sabrina. "I wouldn't have succeeded if I had nothing on you. Where there's smoke, there's a fire. You have to have weaknesses for this to work."
She looked over at Lincoln and questioned, "You...are my dad, right? Biologically speaking?"
"I don't have a daughter as despicable as you," he responded fiercely.
"All these, just so you can save your lovely daughter laying in the hospital?" she mumbled.
"Shouldn't you save her?" Lincoln roared. "Both of you have the same blood coursing through your veins, and yet you plan on watching her die! How did I become a father to such a cold-blooded monster like you?
"Cold-blooded monster!" Sabrina muttered to herself. She lifted her head to gaze at the sky above, trying to blink back her tears. She looked back to the old
Master Shaw and said, "now I truly believe what you said before."
"About what?" he asked, extremely proud of himself at the moment.
"The thing you said, about the older, the wiser," she murmured.
"Thank you for the compliment." "Doesn't it hurt your conscience to sentence me to death?"
"Hurt my conscience? Who exactly am I wronging? Is i t Zayn who became disabled because of you, or his parents that I've wronged? Or is it Nigel, who almost died for you? Maybe it's my granddaughter's fiance Holden Payne back on Star Island? Or perhaps it's Sebastian's mother who is now resting in the cold ground right now?" The old Master Shaw listed one after another, before questioning Sabrina sharply, " Tell me, who exactly did I wrong? Don't tell me that you are referring to yourself?"
"Am I wrong?"
"If it is for the sake of all those people and to ensure their well-being, what's so wrong about wronging you? " He paused, before adding, "besides, I have not wronged you. Your punishment all those years ago did not justify the crime that you have committed. You refuse to change even after all that and lead to another person being severely injured. Women like you should be executed on the spot!"
"So that you can save your granddaughter, you mean," she said, her tone miserable.
The old Master Shaw sneered. "I gave you a choice once, Sabrina. I asked for only one of your kidneys so that both you and my granddaughter could live, but you refused."
"But I..." Tears in her eyes were threatening to fall and for the first time in her life, she finally felt like giving u p. She wasn't the same person as she was before. She had a daughter, who was too young to live without her mother. No matter how strong, fearless or smart Aino was, a child without her mother could mean as little a s the grass on the ground to others, and that was the truth. If it meant that she could survive, she was willing to even act like a dog when she was asked to. A s long as she survived.
The sneer on the old Master Shaw only grew colder. "I thought hard about this. My granddaughter is ill to such an extent, just one kidney wouldn't make her a completely healthy person. But if she has two brand new kidneys, then she would be completely free of illness from now on!" 1
"I..." Sabrina's tone softened. "I...agree. I agree to give one of my kidneys to your granddaughter, please..." "You agree?" The old Master Shaw asked sarcastically.
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