Chapter 5 - THE HOSPITAL CALL
Ethan was still glaring at the door when his private line buzzed. It was St. Catherine’s Medical Center. "Mr. Sterling, there's been an accident. Your son is in the emergency room." The boardroom spun. Ethan abandoned his empire, racing through Manhattan with his heart in his throat. When he finally burst into the pediatric wing, Noah was sitting up, pale and bandaged, but breathing. "He's incredibly lucky," the trauma surgeon explained quietly. "A woman shielded him from the brunt of the impact. She took the hit, stabilized his bleeding, and vanished before we could get her name." Ethan frowned, confusion piercing his panic, until the hospital security chief handed him a tablet showing street-cam footage. Ethan watched in agonizing horror as a woman in a white silk blouse threw herself into the path of speeding metal to save his son.
