I showed up at the hospital to surprise my husband during his shift. But the second one of his coworkers saw me, all the color left his face. Then his eyes filled with tears. “He hasn’t said a word to you, has he?” Ben and I had been married eleven years, and for every one of those years, I had shared him with the hospital. He was a remarkably gifted surgeon.

“Then why hasn’t Jenna given that photo to the medical licensing board?”

“Because she was told that if she ever came forward, her career would be wiped out just like Dr.

Carter’s.”

“Did Walsh threaten her himself?”

Carmen slowly shook her head, looking me straight in the eye.

“No, it wasn’t Dr.

Walsh who shut her up.”

She stopped, as though bracing for how I would take it.