A faint smile touched Gideon’s lips as he looked at her. “You’re right. It’s time I took responsibility for
I did.”
3
“Come on,” Elena said, turning toward the elevator. “We don’t have much time.
THE
deon didn’t fully understand what she meant, but he followed her inside without asking further.
ey went up to the fifteenth floor of the inpatient wing, and as he trailed behind her down the corrido gradually realized that is was the children’s hospital. Every room on this floor was occupied by you patients, and despite t
quiet that clung to the building, there were still children laughing, chasi in the hallway, as if their small bursts of energy were the only thing completely into gloom.
one another
keeping the place
Elena stoppe
Through th
woman w
She w olde
ma
ond-to-last room.
the door, Gideon saw the person inside at once. It was the same middle-aged m before.
the bed, her entire attention fixed on the little girl lying there. The child looked no e. An oxygen mask covered most of her small face, and every breath seemed to come ds drooped weakly, as if she didn’t even have the strength to keep them open, but her er mother the entire time.
her daughter’s hand tightly, rubbing it again and again while softly humming a nursery breath, as though that simple, helpless gesture might somehow ease the child’s pain.
man who spat at you yesterday,” Elena/said quietly, her eyes still on the room. “Her name is Her daughter is just over four years old and was supposed to start kindergarten soon. She to Pinecrest Medical Center for what should have been a routine case of mycoplasma and then everything turned into this.”
arned to look at him, and when she spoke again, her voice carried a force that left no room for
and is gone. That child is all she has left. You can hide in your shell and pretend none of this if that’s what you want, but they don’t have that luxury.”
sharpened.
drugs came out of your lab, and you’re the only one who truly understands how to treat the they caused.”
‘s pupils trembled.
ament, no accusation, and and see the reality with
the room, Bennett
she rose
are with what it felt like to stand
ng to get herself a drink of water, but the moment
our goud her body swayed violently and the nearly collapsed
Gideon moved on instine and reached out to steady her.
“Thank you…
She began to spea face, all the colo
Then, as grip and
he had even hooked up, assuming om hers.
was a nurse, but the second
Elen
to
her strength she did not physically possess, the wrenched herself oss the face with a hard, ringing s
epped forward at once, intendin out moving.
it screamed, all her grief and fu you hurt my daughter enoug
at his clothes, beating against h stepping into the hall. Faces cognized Gideon. The confus
Gideon did not dodge, did et Bennett unleash ever
him for a long time she no longer had
ke apart into help
hed my daughte
er, but Gideon lifted a hard to
once. Why are you here? Have
shouting so loudly that people from after another, some confused at first, u ve way to anger.
self, and did not try to explain. He simply s en carrying.
hoarse, her movements growing weaker, until raging. Her fists still clutched at his shirt, but her
m I supposed to do now? She’s still so little. She’s still se
with difficulty, as though each one had to be forced past sormet
[
ear-filled eyes, disbelief and hatred still plain on her face, and Gideon
y my studio. No one understands them better than I do. I know I can’t appened, and I know apologies alone mean nothing, but I want to cure them sking you, please, give me one chance”
id not waver.
hing I can to make th
quieted.
oken uneven sobs
wolle
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