Lydia only discovered the next morning that footage of her saving the accident victim had gone viral online. A phone that had remained silent for months suddenly flooded with calls, many from former coworkers at the hospital. After hesitating for a long while, she finally answered one from a junior doctor who used to assist her.
"Dr. Lancaster, it really is you! I thought the woman on the news was just someone who looked exactly like you!" The young doctor sounded almost breathless with excitement as she rambled through the latest hospital gossip. "Director Hayes wants to bring you back. Everyone knows now that everything was Vivian's doing, and Dr. Walker already admitted the truth publicly. Your family declared you legally dead, so he genuinely believed you were gone."
Then her tone sh
