Dr. Rachel Morgan had been on her feet for nearly sixteen hours when the phone rang again at the nurses’ station. The emergency department was finally slowing down after a chaotic afternoon, and Rachel leaned against the counter with the kind of exhaustion that settles deep in your bones. Her coffee had gone cold hours ago, and the chart she was reviewing had started to blur in front of her eyes.
Nurse Elena glanced at the phone screen and frowned. “It’s that number again,” she said quietly.
