At 3:47 a.m., the world is supposed to be quiet. Hospitals never are, but my office at St. Catherine’s usually was. The surgical floor slept behind thick glass and fluorescent hum, and my screen glowed with next week’s schedule: gallbladders, hernias, a tumor resection that had me double-checking every name like it was a prayer.Then my phone lit up. ETHAN.My chest tightened so fast it felt like someone had cinched a strap around my ribs. Ethan didn’t call me at this hour unless something had broken loose from the ordinary rules of life. He was twenty-two, halfway through a master’s program at State, three hours away, and stubbornly independent in the way young men are when they’re still certain their bodies are unbreakable.
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