• Chapter 2

  • Chapter 2

  • While we talked. Mike slipped out, phone already pressed to his ear.

  • No doubt calling Carol to get her butt down here ASAP.

  • “Let’s move quickly.” 1 urged. “Time is critical with organ donation, right?”

  • The team started wheeling the bed toward the door.

  • “Stop!” Mike blocked the doorway, practically dripping sweat.

  • “Dr. Anderson, what are you doing?” the coordinator asked, baffled.

  • “Mike, move. Don’t interfere with Dave’s final wish,” I snapped.

  • “He’s not… I mean, you can’t… Please, just wait,” Mike sputtered, nearly blowing the whole charade.

  • “Dr. Anderson, step aside or I’ll have to report this to the chief of surgery,” the coordinator said

  • firmly.

  • “The family hasn’t even had time to say goodbye,” Mike pleaded.

  • “Organs first, goodbyes later. There are people dying while we stand here arguing.”

  • “Get your hands off my son, you heartless witch!”

  • Carol burst through the door like a hurricane.

  • “How dare you try to carve him up before he’s even cold!”

  • “Mom, this isn’t butchery – it’s organ donation,” I explained, trying to keep my voice level.

  • “Who gave you the right?”

  • “I’m honoring Dave’s wishes.”

  • “Bullshit! My son would never agree to this. I absolutely refuse!”

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  • shoved past the

  • Nobody’s touching

  • coordinator left reluctantly, shooting me an apologetic look.

  • wall, finally

  • was probably thanking his lucky stars on that bed,

  • “My poor baby…”

  • threw herself onto Dave’s body with all the drama of

  • you?” Then she whirled on me, mascara running down

  • fault, you gold–digging tramp! You worked

  • me with her French–manicured claws out.

  • I saw red.

  • my previous life, it was Carol who’d rushed

  • been in on

  • want to talk about who killed Dave? Look in the mirror!” I shoved her away.

  • hanging open. “How dare you! I would

  • think he was always hustling for more money? Because his mommy dearest has a gambling addiction and keeps maxing out credit cards at the Hard Rock Casino!”

  • a couple hundred grand…”

  • hundred grand? Jesus Christ,

  • you know what the median income

  • don’t see that kind of money in five

  • last month that cost us twenty

  • at the mall. You got caught fooling around with Susan’s

  • a lie!” Carol’s face

  • I saw your

  • talking about how you’ve been working your way through the married men’s golf

  • that lonely, join Match.com like a normal person instead

  • your mouth!” Carol lunged for my

  • the

  • on her, helping the nurses get her onto a

  • anxiously nearby.

  • nurse in here!” I ran

  • swarmed in, I grabbed Dave’s personal effects

  • van

  • five hundred bucks to take

  • Mike’s calls started

  • hit “decline” on both.

  • of the van, it was just

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