“I’m sorry,” the nurse replied firmly. “We don’t share employee information.” Maya stepped outside and leaned against a cold concrete pillar. Her hands were trembling now. Wife? Address unknown? Aiden had said nothing.
Not during recovery, not when she offered her kidney, not when he vanished. Her stomach twisted. Her chest tightened like a vice. The ache in her side—still healing from the surgery—flared as she slumped onto a bench just outside the hospital.