They Made Me Wait in the ER While Prioritizing a Wedding Until Everything Started to Unravel

me with the specific expression reserved for things tracked in on someone else’s shoe.

“Oh,” she said. “You’re here.”

I set my bag down near the wall. “Got leave.”

She frowned slightly, the way she frowned at inconvenient weather. “You could have at least called. Today’s already chaotic.”

My mother noticed me with mild irritation, the look of someone whose continue reading …