Not of the heir.
Not the businessman.
The man.
He told me that Ethan had raised only Claire after her mother's death.
He told me that he was still paying for the treatments of two sick former employees.
He showed me family photographs that had never appeared in magazines.
It was Claire who managed to convince me.
Not the money.
Marcus didn't understand that.
And he had just destroyed the only thing they had left.
As they walked to the vehicle waiting outside the airport, Ethan suddenly stopped.
He supported a hand against a column.
“Mr. Walsh...
“I’m fine.
I wasn't.
His face had lost color.
“Bring oxygen,” Marcus ordered.The doctor traveling with them opened an emergency suitcase.
In less than a minute Ethan had a mask on his face.
“Saturation eighty-six.
What?
“He’s coming down.
Call the hospital!
The private ambulance waiting outside the terminal was taken to them.
Ethan was immediately transferred to Saint Catherine.
During the journey he asked only one thing:
Find Amelia.
At 6:19 p.m., Dr. Samuel Brooks, director of surgery Cardiothoracic from Saint Catherine, he got a call.
Is Dr. Hart here yet?
"No.
Why?
“We had a problem with the flight.
What problem?
Marcus hesitated.
“He didn’t go up.
Silence.
“Why didn’t he go up?
They took her off the plane.
Dr. Brooks thought he heard wrong.
Who pulled it out?
—The airline.
Why?
“Oversale.
The silence that followed was much worse.
Brooks knew the procedure.
I had spent two months preparing that operating room following each of my specifications.
Special extracorporeal equipment.
Imported instrumentation.
Adapted perfusion system.
Bank of reserved blood.
Two vascular surgeons.
Three anesthesiologists.
An ECMO specialist.
More than twenty professionals prepared for a single intervention.
All that existed because I was going to arrive that afternoon.
“Tell me this is a joke,” Brooks muttered.
"No.
“Where is he now?”
“Chicago.
Then send a plane.
He returned the money.
Brooks slowly dropped the pen between his fingers.
What did they do?
Marcus did not respond.—What did they do for Amelia Hart to return three million and cancel a surgery she had been preparing for weeks?
The answer came before Marcus could make something up.
Claire Walsh ran into the room.
I know what happened!
I had the phone in my hand.
There is a video.
Marcus paled.
What video?
Claire showed her the screen.
