`PATIENT: BROMEL, ADELAIDE VANCE // AGE: 68`
`PROCEDURE: CADAVERIC / LIVING RELATED RENAL TRANSPLANT`
`PRIMARY GRAFT STATUS: CRITICAL HYPERACUTE VASCULAR REJECTION`
`TRANSPLANTED ORGAN SOURCE: LOT #84-LIECHTENSTEIN // PRIVATE PROCUREMENT`
`ISCHEMIA TIME: 41 HOURS, 12 MINUTES (ORGAN CRYOPRESERVED // DEGRADED)`
`CROSSMATCH: FALSE NEGATIVE (SYNTHETIC HISTOCOMPATIBILITY OVERRIDE)`
`VITAL SIGNS: BP 78/42 // HR 134 // SERUM CREATININE 14.2`
`GRAFT VIABILITY: 0.00% // NECROTIC EMBOLIZATION IN PROGRESS`
My breath came out steady, cold, and slow.
“She took the Swiss organ,” I whispered.
“She took the organ her brother, Chief Justice Arthur Sterling-Vance, purchased through his offshore liquidity bridge in Vaduz three weeks ago,” Dr. Oay said, her face setting into a terrifying line of white bone:
“Yesterday morning at zero-six-hundred hours, when Thad kissed your forehead in the pre-op holding area and whispered, *’Thank you for saving my mother’s life, Coraly,’* you weren’t wheeled into OR Three beside Adelaide. You were wheeled into OR Seven under full diplomatic security seal.”
Dr. Oay touched a secondary icon on the terminal.
