“We’re losing time.

The team is standing by, but policy needs a guarantor on file before they can scrub in.

Sign here and we can take her back.” I did not read a word of it.

I took the pen in a shaking hand and signed my name across the line, and I felt Brady exhale behind me, and I caught the flicker of a smirk cross his face before he smoothed it away.

The trap had closed exactly as designed.