Megan sat rigidly in the back seat of the cab, her fingers clutching her handbag tightly as her anxious eyes kept darting toward the road ahead. The evening traffic crawled slowly along the busy street, but to her it felt as though the car wasn’t moving at all. Her heart was pounding violently in her chest, every second stretching endlessly as the thought of Johnson lying weak in the hospital haunted her mind.The cab driver, however, seemed completely unbothered by her urgency. His hands rested loosely on the steering wheel as he navigated the road at a speed Megan considered painfully slow.She leaned forward slightly from the back seat, her voice trembling with frustration.“Hey, can you hasten up a bit, please?” she said, trying to remain polite despite the panic rising inside her. “I have an emergency at the hospital to attend to.”The driver glanced at her briefly through the rearview mirror, clearly noticing the distress written all over her face.“Oh, um… yeah. Of course,” h
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