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.”

he urgently needed compatible blood to survive.

I didn’t question them. Brendan had been my boyfriend for three years, and I would have done anything for him.

While looking for the elevator, I saw a woman in scrubs pushing a small medical cooler. The handwritten label on its side immediately caught my attention.

My name was written across it in bold marker: Chloe Bennett.

I followed her down the quiet hallway. She entered a side room, pulled my blood bag from the cooler, and dropped it into a red biohazard