The Hockey Star's Spicy Stripper
I stood behind her, my hand finding her shoulder, trying to ground her, to ground us both.
The doctor exhaled slowly, removing his glasses and rubbing the bridge of his nose. When he looked up, his eyes held the kind of sorrow that comes from delivering impossible news too many times. "We began the transplant procedure as planned. Everything was going smoothly initially, but…" He paused, and in that pause, the world seemed to hold its breath. "Midway through the surgery, we discovered that the donor heart was a mismatch. The tissue compatibility tests we ran earlier gave us false positives. It's rare, but it happens."
The words hung in the air like shattered glass.
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