Chapter One
CHANTE GREEN knew she was going to be late for work...again.
“Shit...,” she mumbled, impatiently tapping her foot as she craned her neck to see if the bus was anywhere in sight.
She could almost see the look of annoyance on the face of her supervisor, Nurse Betty Lebowitz. It was the third time this month alone and Chante knew she was hanging by a thread. She could lose her job at New York General Hospital, and she needed that now more than ever.
Chante genuinely hoped that Nurse Betty would be a little sympathetic and cut her some slack. After all, the supervisor was familiar with the reason Chante was under a tremendous amount of pressure. Her brother Markey had ALS or Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.
A catastrophic disease that was init
