Karma stood up so fast her chair had scraped against the floor. "Nurse," she called, stepping into the hallway. "I need you in here with the patient. Don't leave him alone. Not for any reason, not even if this building was collapsing."The nurse nodded and went inside.Karma walked straight to her office, locked the door, and fell apart.Now she sat in the silence of her office, crying, blowing mucus out of her nose into a tissue and breathing through her mouth because her nose was too stuffed to breathe in air. Her chest ached and her throat burned.She never thought she would see her father, more or less in that manner. But then again, a leopard never changes its spots. Standing up, she wiped her face with a hand, while she reached for her phone with the other hand. She pulled her phone from her coat pocket, and clicked the power button and scrolled through her contacts. She found the name she was looking for, then she pressed ‘dial’.It rang three times, before she heard her name
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