“Accepted.
Third. No one in the family will contact my hospital for pressure.
“Accepted.
“Four.
I stopped.
The airline will preserve all security footage, internal records and communications related to my expulsion. If a single file disappears, I don't get on the plane.Flights
Claire answered without hesitation.
“He will have it.
And one last thing.
“Tell me.
I don’t want all three million.
“Then how much?”
“Zero.
Claire was silent.
“If I operate on Ethan, I will because he is my patient.
I looked at my broken suitcase on the floor.
Not because someone thinks they can buy me.
Thirty-five minutes later I was on a jet heading to New York.
Daniel came with me.
During the flight we checked every picture of Ethan.
The situation was worse than expected.
“The pulmonary pressure went up,” Daniel said.
I saw him.
“If we wait until tomorrow...
“We can’t.
Without the complete pharmacological protocol, the postoperative protocol will be brutal.
I know.
Daniel looked at me.
Do you still want to do it?
I closed the tablet.
"Yes.
While we were flying, Vanessa Cole was finishing another flight.
When he got off the plane, he turned on the phone.
I had hundreds of notifications.
At first he smiled.
He thought his video had gone viral.
He was right.
Just not the way I expected.
His own face appeared everywhere.
“Hostop humiliates the renowned surgeon.”
“Airline expels doctor traveling to save the VIP passenger.”
“Single drug destroyed during oversold incident.”
Vanessa felt his legs fail.
He looked for my name.
He found it.
Dr. Amelia Hart.
Specialist in surgery complex cardiovascular.Surgery
International consultant.
Author of surgical techniques cited in dozens of publications.
And underneath it came something worse.
“Hart was the surgeon who was supposed to operate on Ethan Walsh that same night.”
Vanessa dropped the phone.
“No...
A supervisor approached.
Vanessa Cole.
She turned.
“Yes?”
“Give me your crew ID.
Why?
It is suspended with immediate effect.
But I followed the procedure!
"No.
The supervisor looked at her coldly.
“And we have the recordings.
We landed in New York after midnight.
Claire was waiting for us.
Not Marcus.
Good signal.
“Ethan had two episodes of arrhythmia,” he said as we walked. They controlled them, but Dr. Brooks wants to go into surgery immediately.
“Then let’s not waste time.
When I entered Saint Catherine, the hallway was full.
