• 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!”

  • dont Volvat Nights

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  • the transplant coordinator

  • touching my baby boy.”

  • coordinator left reluctantly, shooting

  • the wall, finally

  • lucky stars on

  • “My poor baby…”

  • Dave’s body with all the drama of

  • you?” Then she

  • you gold–digging tramp! You worked him to

  • at me with her French–manicured claws out.

  • I saw red.

  • was Carol who’d rushed Dave’s “body” to cremation.

  • on the whole

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

  • mouth hanging open. “How dare you!

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

  • lost a couple

  • couple hundred grand? Jesus Christ, Carol.”

  • you know what the median income

  • see that kind of money in

  • let’s not forget your little ‘accident last month that cost us twenty grand in medical bills, Don’t think I

  • weren’t ‘rear ended at the mall. You got caught fooling around with Susan’s husband at

  • lie!” Carol’s face

  • I saw

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

  • lonely, join Match.com like a normal person instead of breaking up marriages.”

  • mouth!” Carol lunged

  • she slammed into the crash cart, knocking herself

  • I rushed to check on her, helping the

  • hovered anxiously nearby.

  • We need a nurse in here!” I ran into the hallway shouting.

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

  • van was already waiting.

  • the driver five hundred bucks to take the fastest

  • calls started flooding my

  • hit “decline”

  • it was just me and

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