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The doctors are disappointed We are in this business to save lives, not lose theoes well Like I said, we don’t see a lot of gun violence here, so when the victiainst time

“Are you okay?” Alex asksto me “That must have been hard”

I shrug one shoulder “No harder for me than anyone else, I suppose” I smile thinly

She shootsI don’t I furrowwhat I missed

“You didn’t hear the last na, Landon Isn’t that your criminal boyfriend? I wondered why you seemed so calm in there I was a mess for you!”

“L… Landon?” My knees buckle “Ted? I didn’t get a good look his face ere working because there was soso fast”

“I don’t know, I didn’t really look either” She leans doith“Once I heard the na in on you”

The knot in hter Ted is dead When he walked out on ain, but I didn’t think that I would findon hiht have worked harder, faster, insisted that the doctors did more… not that they could have

“I should have known,” I whisper “A gun shot… after the life that he lived… it makes sense…”

“Doesn’t h, does it?” Alex doesn’t tell me that she warned me about this, instead she comforts me in the way that only a best friend can I don’t knohat I would do without her “I’m so sorry, Chloe, but I am here for you Whatever you need”

“I need to see him” I bobble to my feet “I need to know for sure, Alex I can’t… I have to…”

“I don’t think you should do that” she warns me, but typical of ain

“You don’t get it, Alex, I need to,” I half sob “I have to know if it was him…”