Chapter 50

Clara

I’d barely stepped back inside the front doors of the hospital before I was returned to the demanding pace of medical life—hadn’t even made it back to my office.

“Incoming! Stab victim, male, mid-thirties!” a nurse called, her voice sharp with urgency.

In no time at all, I was gloved and masked, in the heat of the trauma bay. As the stretcher was wheeled in, and I caught sight of the unconsc