Lena's POV
The verdict came on a Tuesday.
Dana had called the night before to say the jury had been deliberating for two days and had requested one exhibit — the dosage progression chart. That was specific enough to tell her something. She said be available tomorrow morning and I said I would be and I went to bed and slept six hours, which surprised me.
I was in surgery when the call came.
A mitral valve repair that had been scheduled for three weeks and could not be moved. I was two hours in when the jury went out and four hours in when they came back and I was closing when my phone lit up on the surgical tray with Dana's name and the scrub nurse looked at me and I said finish the count and kept working.
I read her message in the scrub room.
Guilty. All counts. Attempted murder, fra
