The Love that Never Really Dies

Sasha picked up her phone to make a call to the hospital.

“Hello? Dr. Jones, this is Nancy. I’d like to ask, has there been a change in my case?”

“Oh, Nancy! Yes, yes, it’s been proven that the whole thing has nothing to do with you. After carrying out an autopsy, the police found out that the patient’s cause of death was poison. So, it wasn’t your fault,” the internal medicine director, overjoyed at receiving Sasha’s call, explained to her excitedly.

Sasha’s hands trembled as she spoke. “A-are you telling the truth?”

“Of course I am! This was all in the official report from the police. Besides, we invited a few TCM consultants to give their opinions on your acupuncture needle placement, and they are of the opinion that you did not make any professional mistake!” stressed Dr. Jones.

No one in the internal medicine department had wanted to believe that Dr. Nancy had slipped up. After all, she was an internationally acclaimed doctor, and everyone had witnessed what she had accomplished and what she was capable of.

They had seen first-hand how she handled all kinds of medical complications, and even proposed solutions to reform several flaws in the hospital’s internal medical system.

How could a good doctor like that made a mistake?

Sasha trembled in agitation. “What is going on? How did someone find out that it wasn’t my mistake?”

“They made the discovery after the President of Hayes Corporation came over yesterday. Nancy, you might not know this, but the largest shareholder of our hospital is actually the Hayes Corporation. The incident blew up and even made international headlines, so Mr. Hayes paid a visit to the hospital first thing in the morning.”

“What happened next?” Sasha croaked after a while, eyes brimming with tears.

police came over and had someone

was hit by a pang of emotions and she

to suppress came flooding

what she had been

professional malpractice,

trouble. She felt as if the whole world

could barely think

when she faked her death and escaped with two of her children five years

all, that had been her own life at

someone else’s blood was on her hands, which

crying Mommy

reached out to her, comforting her in each of their

director was also getting choked up. “Everything is alright now, Dr. Nancy, you’re fine now. We’re all waiting for

to calm herself down. Surrounded by her kids as she wiped the tears from her face, she asked into the phone, “Did

shift before yours. He had soaked your needles in poison that he’d concocted himself, causing the patient’s blood vessels

he do such a thing? What does he have

started working at the hospital barely a month ago. How could she have offended or insulted this Lockhart guy to the point

didn’t have an answer for