HEARTSTRINGS

e head of the table stood the renowned surgeon and accuracy expert Dr. Williams Benson, his hands steady, and c

around him. Williams wasn't bothered as a nurse wiped perspiration from his brow. The patient was a middle

ess voice. Almost before he could say another

lights, and the faint buzz of the equipment that kept the guy on the table alive, there was nothing. This was

heir personal lives interfere with their professional lives and let life's messiness impair their judgement. Williams had

ce in the passagewa

re, the evidence of his ability, and with this, he experienced that comforting feeling of contentment. The patie

d away from the table. He took off his gloves whi

s just another day in his eyes, another life preserved by his steady hands. The world would keep tu

he moved through the hospital's austere, fluorescent-lit hallways. Success, respect, and total control over his life were all he

d appeared. Such indulgences were out of the questio

is office doors and entered the chilly, impersonal interior

e that. He took a short breath and forced the feeling well into the back of his mind, b

the stronghol

had so painstakingly constructed. This force would change his entire world

ts, and Williams' was about to be penetrated by an

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