I’ve lost the right to see how Zeke is, so I don’t enter the room when the doctor talks to Langston about Zeke’s condition. Langston may respect me, but he hasn’t forgiven me. I might have a chance at forgiveness now that Zeke has survived, but that won’t come for a long time.
The doctor tells Langston that if Zeke survives the night, he will have an excellent chance at living.
I listen as Langston goes to his friend and cries gently at the possibility that his friend could die.
The doctors and nurses that treated Zeke file out of the room. The lead doctor stops when he sees me. “I’ll make sure a nurse is always awake monitoring Zeke through the worse of it. I’ll send most of my team home, but I’d like to stay in case something happens I can take him back into surgery quickly. Is the
