Lily sat at the kitchen table, staring at the official letter from the hospital board. Her suspension notice. Words like gross negligence, patient endangerment, and pending investigation bled off the page like poison.

Her fingers clenched around the paper until it crumpled. Her chest heaved, fury boiling over.

“I didn’t do anything wrong,” she whispered.

But none of that mattered now. Not to the board. Not to her colleagues. Not to the patient whose condition had mysteriously worsened under her watch.

She had reviewed the case file three times already. The patient, had been stable post-surgery. All medications accounted for. Vitals improving.

Rihanna arrived shortly after, her expression stormy. “You...