Raymond’s brief slackening was a lie. The tremors surged again, crawling through his body like an electric current that refused to ground. His fingers curled inward, nails biting into his palms. His legs began to jerk in sharp, uneven bursts, heels drumming against the mattress despite the nurses’

Raymond's father slumped against the wall, his expensive suit crumpled, his carefully maintained composure shattered into fragments as sharp as broken glass. The other parents had been ushered out hours ago—their children were recovering, waking with nothing worse than splitting headaches and fragme

Dr. Sarah had stopped believing in miracles around the same time she'd stopped believing in sleep. She pressed her forehead against the airplane window, watching city lights crawl past thirty thousand feet below. Her phone sat in her lap, airplane mode off despite the regulations, refreshing a medi

Dr. Sarah's heels struck the hospital floor in rapid succession, each click a countdown she couldn't afford to lose. The fluorescent lights overhead blurred into streaks as she moved through the corridor, her leather bag bouncing against her hip with the weight of equipment she prayed she wouldn't n

Ethan's hand closed around the door handle, and the cold metal told him everything he needed to know before he even tried to turn it. The mechanism didn't give. Not jammed. Not stuck. Locked. The kind of electronic lock that required override codes from the hotel's central system, the kind that mean