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.
