Maya's POVI keep hitting the button three more times after the security pattern.Then I kept my back to Alex and my eyes on the door until the first nurse came through it at a run, and then the second, and then the doctor on call who had been at the nurses' station and had heard something in the pattern of the call that told him this was not routine.They all looked, at me first"Someone was in this room," I said. "He touched ,the IV line. The junction at the ,secondary port.... it looks wrong. Something may, have been introduced."The doctor moved to the bed.One look at ,the line and his face ,changed"Disconnect it," he said. "Now...."The room filled in thirty seconds.Not chaotic.... that was the thing about trained people in a crisis, the way their urgency looked like control from the outside even when the stakes were at their highest. Two nurses flanking the bed, the doctor at the l
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