Linda rushed toward the trauma bay.
Danny began preparing the equipment.
The receptionist contacted the on-call team.
Even Teague stopped arguing long enough to review the incoming patient’s information.
But he kept watching Annie.
The quiet woman he had mocked for months was suddenly coordinating the entire emergency response.
Her hands no longer trembled.
Her eyes moved from one task to another, assessing what needed to be done and anticipating what the team would need when the patient arrived.
She was no longer the timid nurse who apologized whenever someone raised their voice.
She was someone else.
Someone they had never bothered to meet.
At 3:04 a.m., the radio crackled once more.
“Angel Six, this is Holloway. If you can hear me, I need you to know something.”
Annie stopped beside the trauma bay doors.
Her face went pale.
“Go ahead,” she replied.
The answer came through the static.
“We’ve been looking for you for six years.”
Annie closed her eyes for one brief moment.
Then she opened them and looked toward the ambulance entrance.
“Bring him in.”
Outside, military vehicles were approaching through the storm.
And the man who had called for Angel Six was about to reveal why a group of servicemen had spent six years searching for the nurse everyone at Pine Harbor called Mouse.
END OF PART 1
PART 2 REVEALS WHAT HAPPENED WHEN THE WOUNDED SERVICEMAN ARRIVED AND WHY THE ENTIRE MEDICAL TEAM WAS ABOUT TO DISCOVER ANNIE’S SECRET.