BROKEN WING / BROKEN CAGE

t her into an operating room, stat!"

urrying off to the intercom to boo

ree nurses stood around the lady on the gurney, from her dr

call for the operating room said as

ey all rushed Karen out of the emer

going in for surgery, I'll let you know where the room is. For now, hold on

nd shortly after, a doctor came ov

noisy, bustling room. He remembered the mome

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lt. Her heart was racing and he

er arms, but they did not budge. She closed her eyes and

ospital. I'm...I'm

ed, trying to get a handle on the sou

heart-rate monitor and something she

ce curtain covering a wide window. She cou

hit her, it'

remember! It was night and now it's..

heading...I was heading to the gallery

emories came fl

checked the clock on her phone clipped beside the steering whee

rp bend, and was startled by a car

full speed, way too fast for a be

e car suddenly came at her,

the left. The oncoming driver also swerved, but in the panic of the situati

truck and was thrown across the road, tumbling three times befor

was the last thing she remembered b

e again and she could hear t

room. Was it a quick breath that was take

, and she held her breath, struggling to move he

one approaching the bed. Again, she tr

it a doctor, a nurse, an orderly? But as the person came i

casual clothes – a dark golf shirt, dark brown belt, and light-colo

eone she had seen on TV, in

ving, but Karen could not hear what he was

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. How he had waited outside the operating room, after being treated by the nurse a

tires, the loud crash, and the teari

gain, for the umpteenth t

ide door of the silver GMC t

mbling in his pockets for his phone a

ne now, Taylor?

om side to side from the impact and the shock of the ac

d, and he tried to walk faster. The driver was unconscious, pressed between the disl

le to do so. The pain from the accident ripped through his body, slowing

ocket and immediately dialed the emergency

t know what or where. His only thought was to ge

at evening and the weather was cool, but Taylor was sweating pro

e index and middle fingers of his left hand on her neck to check f

elt a crazed panic rising within him. He pulled his h

moment, he suddenly felt it and sighed with relief, There it is, he tho

led vehicle and sat on the roadside,

he ambulance to show up and he had ridde

his head, and they were in his head right now as he

I goin

her going to d