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Elena began sobbing I pulled her intoback flood ether enough to listen, the roos

“Now, it’s not going to be easy, but I expect Maks to make a full recovery His condition is very rare and thirty years ago his prognosis would have been poor, butway since then There’s bone ene therapy,” she said as she counted it out on her fingers

Her optiain my sense of balance

“We have a lot of inforo over I know your parents are with Maks Did you want them to join us?”

“They don’t speak the language,” Elena said

“We’ll translate for them afterwards,” I added

Dr Riggs nodded “Okay, so here’s e know…”

I didMaks’s immune system but in reality, I was just so damned relieved to know that there was hope for oing through all the treats with questions When it was over, Elena was crying happy tears as we each reached across the table to thank the doctor

“I kno scary this is,” Dr Riggs said “It ht this as soon as we did This disease isn’t easy to diagnose I’”

“Jude?” I asked in surprise “What?”

Dr Riggs hesitated “Jude Archer? I understand he’s a friend of the family? He called me last week to ask me to reach out to Maks’s doctors here at Mount Sinai”

“Jude told you about Maks?” Elena said, which I was glad for because the doctor had ed to stun me into speechlessness

“Yes Were you not aware of that?”

“When did he call you?” I ed to ask

“Um, I’m not sure Tuesday, I think”

Tuesday After he’d walked out on me “How do you know him?” I asked

“Jude sits on the board for The Hayes Foundation It helps our hospital and many like it fund ested starting the foundation to Mr Hayes a couple of years ago”