Chapter 9

Rachel's POV

“You two know each other?”

“Yeah, we kind of got married last week,” I snorted as I filled the charts.

“Alan, why did you want to go New York City Hospital when we had someone we know work here?” The man, who I had learnt was Jason, asked.

As it happens, it was Jason, Bruce and Alan who had rushed into the ER a few hours go with another man named Cameron who had collapsed in their office. Cameron was also Jason’s father and it seemed to me that he was like a father figure to the rest of them too.

“Yeah, except I didn’t know.” Alan mumbled begrudgingly.

I rose my eyebrows in surprise and gave him a questioning look. Seeming to slip from his trance, he corrected himself, “I mean, it slipped my mind. I thought New York City Hospital was closer.”

I shook my head in despair of his dishonesty. It was perhaps a habit of his to lie so effortlessly with everybody, “Anyway, the patient is stable and will be out of surgery in an hour or two, if all goes well. Doctor Degrassee-