The policeman’s words hung in the cold air of the emergency room… – BICHNHU

A message.

My phone.

The officer noticed the change in my expression.

—Did you remember anything?

I slowly pulled my phone out of my medical uniform pocket.

There was a message from Evan that had arrived shortly before my shift started.

I hadn’t opened it at that moment because I was seeing patients.

I opened it now.

The words on the screen made my heart stop.

“We need to talk about the lab.”

I felt the air disappear from the room.

“Doctor?” the officer asked.

I showed him the phone.

The officer read the message carefully.

—Do you know what he meant?

I shook my head slowly.

—No.

But inside me a terrible feeling was beginning to grow.

Evan was never interested in my work.

Never.

“We need to check the lab,” the officer finally said.

-Right now.

I got up from the chair immediately.

—I’ll take them.

We left the consultation room and walked down the silent hospital corridor while a single question repeated itself in my mind over and over again.