She glanced back at the computer. Maybe she could get away with forwarding the exam results to her private email address. It would be less obvious than opening it, though still an ethical breach. She went back to the computer and typed in her private email with the file attached, but hesitated to send it.
“I still believe in Christmas magic,” Ava said, turning back to Olivia. “It’s rare—more rare than I would like—but I think it’s still there.”
“Well then, I hope you see some Christmas magic this year,” Olivia said, with a fairy’s smile that melted Ava’s heart.
Doctors who want to remain sane try to keep an emotional distance from patients, especially when it comes to kids with cancer since the odds are so often stacked against them, but Ava found it difficult, if not impossible, not to
