Chapter 6
It had been three days already |
Even the hospital administration was ordering wreaths for my Baneral
When was Ellas finally going to realize i was dead?]]
I watched Elias sleeping in the on–call room after another long shift, and my sigh was heavier than ever.
Come to think of it, we’d barely seen each other since starting work
Neurosurgery and orthopedics were on different Doors of the surgical building, one above the other
We worked in the same hospital but hardly ever crossed paths
a week!]
be see each other two or three times a weel
Day shiha, night shifts, on–call rotations. Even when we both rested at home, we’d maybe see
Maybe that’s why we’d slowly drifted apart
Zers might be a homewrecker, but our relationship is just as fragile.
zkoday the hospital administration asked Ellas to stop by the office when he had time. Something about the arrangements for receiving my skeleton.]
That dated back to when we’d first gotten our li
licenses after graduation
To celebrate, Ellas and I had gone and done the whole package–blood donation, bone marrow registry, and body donation paperwork
If either of us died, his skull would go to neurosurgery for my department, and my skeleton would go to orthopedics for his
Back then, as fresh graduates we saw this exchange of bones as both an act of faith and the ultimate expression of love.
Iwandered around Elias’s office, picking out where I’d be displayed–right behind his desk ||
Back to the sunlight, but with a view of people coming and going in the hallway so I wouldn’t get lonely. A pretty decent spo
When Elias woke up, he checked his phone again. He finally seemed to realize that three days without contact was too long–something was wrong
He called over Dr. Marcus, the poor guy who’d worked on me that night. Hesitant and guilty, his conscience finally kicked in enough to ask about me.[
Tira… did she… was the in pain that night?”
Dr. Marrus looked miserable. Even though he hadn’t done anything wrong, having a patient die made him nervous. “Probably not. It was pretty quick by the time we got there, there wasn’t much we could do.”
I was speechless. You don’t know if I was in pain? Y
You never
asked about those huge gashed that night|]
Elias wasn’t satisfied. “What kind of sutures did you use? Do you have any photos of how the stitching nurned out?”
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Dr. Marcus looked confused. 1 think we used regular sutures, not the dissolvable kind. Photo.. haven’t you seen her yourself ||
A flash of discomfort crossed Ella’s face
Then he suddenly realized something was wrong and shot up from his chair. “Why didn’t you use dissolvable sutures on facial wounds? What if she’s scarred?“|| “Go prep a vonure kit right now
Elias pulled out his phone, frantically opening any contact, but before he could call. Dr. Marrus spoke up hely. “But we don’t exactly have protocols for cosmetic suturing in……..bodies
The air seemed to freeze for a moment
Elias slowdy looked up “what did you say?]
“Bidies
He looked utterly confused, pursing his lipa nervously
ly before f
forcing a casual tone
You must be mixed up. I’m talking about Elara–my girlfriend, you
i know her. She came in that might
with the nat
patient in room 27 and was discharged around midnight-1
Dr. Marcus was bewildered but instinctively sensed something was very wrong. He swallowed hard. “Dr. Shaw, we have been talking about Elara this whole time. Your girlfriend – Clare, who died while you were operating on room 27.-]
