The Mafia King's Regret
And in the end, I’d have to reckon with my choice—to save a mobster or usher in the demise of a bad man.
But somehow, all that disappeared as I stared at the stranger on the bed. Because that’s all he was. A stranger. A man, bleeding out, who needed my help. Who I could save.
Now or never, Layla.
I reached for my gloves, met my intern’s eyes. “Cut his clothes off.”
His eyes bubbled into rounded coins of surprise.
“Now!” I barked, scalpel already in hand. The answer was suddenly so clear, as I bent over that body. I was a doctor, not a god, not a jury. My job was life—to save it, to protect it, to promote it.