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another message on the mini blackboard.
    The hospital is especially
busy tonight. They needed more staff. I’ll be home ASAP. Teriyaki
chicken in the fridge. Love, A .
    He remembered the advice from the
doctor the day before.
    Unnecessary stress can kill
the babies.
    He considered going to the hospital and
insisting she come home. He would tell her it was for the sake of
their unborn babies.
    Instead, he reclined into his easy
chair and turned on the TV. Alyssa was a big girl. She could make
her own decisions.
    He walked past the guest room, which
was now the babies’ room, on his way to his room to
change.
    He glanced at the babies’ room, then
did a double-take.
    There were now two cribs instead of the
one. There were also one extra of everything: socks, baby clothes,
pacifiers.
    Alyssa must have gone shopping without
him again.
    He was not surprised. He supposed he
should be getting used to Alyssa’s maternal instincts taking
charge.
    He was heading into the kitchen to heat
up some dinner when the TV attracted his attention.
    The images on the screen showed a busy
emergency room hospital scene. All the nurses and doctors were
scrambling here and there, as though to escape from a fire.
Suddenly, a patient was wheeled into the ER and the staff made a
beeline toward the gurney. Sweat poured off their faces as they
rushed along beside it. They looked really stressed out to
Luke.
    Having had enough, Luke turned off the
TV and headed out the door.
    When he got to the Vancouver General
Hospital, he was relieved to discover that the ER was not as busy
as that depicted on the TV.
    On the contrary, it was nearly empty.
Only a man with a bandaged head and a woman and her son were
sitting in the brightly-lit waiting room.
    Luke approached the first staff member
he saw.
    “ Excuse me, I’m looking for
Alyssa. I‘m her….” He stopped short. What should he call himself?
“Fiancé,” he finally said.
    The redhead male nurse pointed to the
larger room behind the desk of the triage nurse. Recognizing Luke,
the triage nurse smiled and let him pass.
    He made his way past the desk and saw
Alyssa on the other side. She was in her adorable nurse uniform
standing, beside a pale little girl who was lying in one of the
semi-private beds, shower sheets drawn around it
haphazardly.
    Alyssa turned and waved.
    Luke waved back, but stayed put. He
knew better than to disturb her while she was with a
patient.
    To amuse himself while waiting, he
surveyed the bright emergency room. Doctors and nurses in white
coats sat around the central work station in the middle of the
enormous room, chatting with one another and staring into computer
screens.
    Behind Alyssa, Luke saw a
door that led into a pitch-black room. Curious, he went closer to
it. It was labeled Detention
Room.
    Who could they possibly have to detain
here? He wondered.
    He pressed his face against the tiny
window and peered inside. He could see nothing. Then, his eyes
adjusted and he saw a tiny bed in one corner, and a sink and faucet
in the other. A light bulb dangled from the ceiling in the middle
of the chamber.
    His question was answered when a pudgy
face with bulging eyes appeared out of nowhere and glared at him
through the observation window.
    Luke felt a jolt as he pulled back. His
heart beat faster and his breathing intensified.
    The same redhead male nurse approached
him. “Sir, please don’t stare into the room. The detainee in there
is psychologically unstable. Just a few minutes ago, the patient
was shouting so loudly that he woke up some babies and made them
cry.”
    Luke stepped away from the room
immediately.
    Suddenly, the door of the Detention
Room burst open, hitting Luke on the back, and sending him flying
onto the floor.
    The mentally unstable patient grabbed
the first person he saw, and put a sharp pencil to her
throat.
    Unfortunately, that person happened to
be Alyssa.
    “ Don’t come any closer, or
I’ll kill her,” he threatened.
    For the first time, Luke