Chapter 48

Content with that knowledge, we drive the rest of the way home in silence, but our hands remain joined.

I welcome the return of the routine life back at the hospital. When I check in with Dr. Wood , I recall the information that Ben gave me. Chleo cheated on her medical school exams while she struggled with motherhood. Had she not been dealing with the stresses of a newborn, I’ve no doubt she’d have been capable of passing them on her own merit. But this information certainly cast her in a whole different light. She’s fallible and doesn’t deserve to be on any pedestal we students have placed her on.

“Good morning, Dr. Wood,” I say with a knowing smile when I run into her at the nurses’ station.

“Chleo.” She smiles back apprehensively as if she suspects something is up but has

Things are pretty slow today. No interesting procedures taking place in the OR, at least nothing I’m interested in adding to my procedures list. So, I stick to the , lending a hand wherever I can.

While I’m