• 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 transplant

  • out! Nobody’s touching

  • coordinator left reluctantly, shooting me an apologetic look.

  • wall, finally able to breathe again

  • lucky stars on that bed, thinking

  • “My poor baby…”

  • all

  • on without you?” Then she whirled

  • all your fault, you gold–digging tramp!

  • came at me with her French–manicured

  • I saw red.

  • it was Carol who’d rushed Dave’s

  • on the whole

  • want to talk about who killed Dave? Look in the mirror!”

  • “How dare you! I would

  • Why do you 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

  • only lost a couple hundred grand…”

  • couple hundred grand? Jesus Christ, Carol.”

  • know what the median income is in this

  • kind of

  • ‘accident last month that cost us twenty grand in medical bills, Don’t think I don’t know what really happened.”

  • got caught fooling around with Susan’s husband at

  • Carol’s face

  • I saw your ER

  • talking about how you’ve been working

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

  • shut your mouth!” Carol lunged for my throat.

  • the crash

  • on her, helping the nurses get her onto a

  • anxiously nearby.

  • a nurse in here!” I ran

  • the medical team swarmed in, I grabbed Dave’s personal effects bag and started wheeling him toward the service elevator.

  • van

  • bucks to take the fastest route to the

  • started

  • “decline” on both.

  • the back of the van, it was just

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