The hospital was already in chaos when I arrived. Ambulances lined the entrance, their sirens echoing through the morning air. Nurses rushed past pushing stretchers while doctors shouted urgent instructions across the corridor.
The air smelled sharply of antiseptic… and something heavier.
Blood.
My heart started racing.
Something was terribly wrong.
“What happened?” I asked Joy.
She looked just as breathless as everyone else.
“An earthquake hit Raven City last night. They’re transferring patients here.”
My stomach tightened.
I rushed to my desk, dropped my bag, pulled on my coat, and hurried toward the exit where patients were being brought in on stretchers.
That was when I saw him.
Mr. Vincent.
He stood beside a stretcher, already examining a patient. Even in the chaos, Vincen
