My mom was momentarily speechless. "But renting a place costs money, and your dad and I are quite busy."

They were busy with fishing, bird-walking, and relaxing vacations.

I chuckled, "Then let her live on her own. She's an adult now, and you've raised her well. She should be able to handle her own affairs."

Seeing that I was unmoved, my mom relented.

She even gave Lily five thousand dollars to buy new clothes to meet Cole.

Counting the days, Lily should have already started donating blood to Lauri.

One weekend evening, my mom called me in a panic.

She said, "Audra, Lily fainted at school. You need to call an ambulance right away."

It was always like this in my previous life—whenever Lily had an accident, my parents would call me first to solve the problem.

I was the one who paid for her hospitalization, follow-up medication, and even the ambulance.

They couldn't even be bothered to come to the hospital, treating me like a problem-solver, constantly calling to rush me.

I used to be naïve, thinking family shouldn't keep count.

Now, sipping my coffee, I said slowly, "Mom, I'm an emergency doctor, not an ambulance driver. How can I drive to save her?"

My mom was frantic. "You know you're an emergency doctor. Then hurry and go with the ambulance to the school to save Lily. What if something happens to her because you're late?"

I held up the phone to show the chaos of the emergency room.

I said, "Mom, it's not that I don't want to go, but you know how busy I am in the emergency room. The nurses are calling me for an urgent surgery. I have to go now."

My mom nearly lost her mind, shouting, "Wait! Audra, do you even have a conscience? Is Lily's life less important than those strangers in the hospital?"

I calmly advised her, "Mom, don't panic. Lily is getting along well with Mr. Zuniga. Maybe he'll even send a helicopter to rescue her, which would be faster than an ambulance."

My mom, furious, started cursing me and lamented how the family ended up with such an ungrateful child.

I hung up the phone and turned around to find several nurses pushing a stretcher into the emergency room.

They called out to me, "Dr. Moran, this patient, who was confused, mentioned you as her sister and insisted you treat her."

I walked out with my coffee and waved my hand. "Sorry, my shift is over. Please find the on-duty doctor."

Lily wasn't in serious trouble. She had just fainted from anemia.