Chapter 45
The surgery was already tense from the moment it started.
It was a complicated trauma case — a young man who had been in a severe car accident. He had massive internal bleeding, a ruptured spleen, and his blood pressure kept dropping dangerously low. The operating room was filled with the usual sounds of monitors beeping, instruments clinking, and urgent voices calling out vitals.
Ethan was leading the surgery, calm but focused under the bright lights. I was assisting as one of the scrub nurses, along with two other nurses and Carla, who had been assigned to the case as well.
I tried to stay in my lane and focus on my tasks, but I could feel the tension in the room. Ever since Ethan had promised me he would deal with Carla and Ryan, I had been on edge, wondering how and when
