The gurney’s wheels screeched against the tile floor as the ER doors swung open. Abigail’s pale face, her labored breaths, and the way her hand had slipped weakly from his...every image was branded itself into Kai’s mind as nurses and doctors rushed her inside.
“Wait here, sir!” a nurse barked, blocking his path with firm hands.
Kai shoved forward instinctively, his chest heaving. “I can’t! She needs me—”
But the nurse’s grip tightened and his tone was sharp yet steady. “The best thing you can do for her right now is to let us do our job. Stay here.”
And so the doors closed and the sterile white walls swallowed Abigail from his sight.
For a heartbeat, Kai just stood there, frozen, as though the ground had been ripped from beneath him. He had seen her like this once before. Her body on
