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Then the top of the car was torn off and she and Malek pounced on the boy, a little angel of around seven, with silky black hair and fine features, the olive of his skin fading along with his life force

Tre, she fitted hien urney In the periphery of her vision she saw Malek’sthe dead man and woman from their death trap Her insides twisted

They took the boy inside and Malek barked, “Rafeeq, ready OR, Alyaa, prepare CT, Lobna, expose the patient as ork”

His eyes slaloves, and without words each took a chore

Just as she finished intubating the boy and started positive pressure ventilation, she heard Saeed’s subdued words in Malek’s ear

Malek nodded as he finished hooking the boy to the cardiac s “Pulse 45, BP 70 over 30, oxygen 80 percent”

Lobna finished cutting the boy’s clothes off and Jay pounced on hiross injuries,” she ns depression are probably due to brain injury”

Malek gave a grim nod, then let out a heavy exhalation “They were his mother and father, Shabaan Abul-Hamd and Kareemah El-Swaifi He is Adham”

Adham Black Like his silken hair and lashes

She co on the hard-earned distancing techniques she’d developed through years of discipline so she’d be of use to her patients, to herherself feel devastation only when they no longer needed her But they’d never stopped needing her and she’d had her distance program perpetually on

Then she’d met Malek, then all this had happened and she could now barely locate it, let alone turn it on

She gritted her teeth, swung her gaze up, groping for Malek’s support

He gave it, his voice when he spoke, his words, their intensity and i her control “He won’t share their fate Not if we have anything to say about it”

A cold fist in her chest melted, scalded her Yes Please

He turned to Adhah exans of internal injuries That supported the head-trau his blood pressure to raise his cerebral perfusion took on a new urgency She announced her interventionAdham a 250 cc saline bolus Will continue with a rapid drip for twoher heart bob in her chest with the approval in his eyes Then he rose as soon as Rafeeq walked back to theive me vitals every five et a GCS,” she called out after hi his reflexes Soon she called out her bleak assessment to Malek “It’s six One-three-two”

Malek strode back to theen at 85 percent,” Rafeeq said

Malek’s huff was eloquent “Let’s see what’s keeping ourproperly”

He pushed the trolley to the CT machine In seconds he had Adhaen and fluid supplies weren’t interrupted

As Malek put the ripped her

“Malek—he also has a unilaterally dilated right pupil, with ipsilateral third cranial nerve paralysis Do you think …?”