I donated bl00d to save my boyfriend after his friends told me he had been in a serious ac:cid:ent. As I was leaving the hospital, I heard someone behind a door say, “I can’t believe she fell for it again.”

raced, but I walked over without unlocking it.

“Go away, Brendan,” I said firmly.

“What on earth is wrong with you?” he asked, sounding mildly annoyed.

I laughed bitterly.

“I heard everything at the clinic today.”

Silence.

Then he asked, “Who told you?”

He didn’t ask if I was alright or what I had heard. He only cared who had exposed him.

“Nobody told me,” I answered through the wooden door. “I heard you and your friends with my own ears.”

Brendan paused.

“Chloe, you are completely exaggerating as usual.”